The Movement: How Women&rsquo\;s Liber ation Transformed America\, 1963-1973 is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement\, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes. The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist moveme nt. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it\, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt lik e to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade when women rejecte d thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wan ted and needed to be.
\nThis engaging history traces women&rsquo\;s awakening\, organizing\, and agitating between 1963 and 1973 when a decent ralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan&rsquo\;s The Feminine Mystique to the underground abortion network the Janes\, to Shirley Chisholm&rsquo\;s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King&rsquo\;s 1973 battle of the sex es\, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion pers on by person\, bringing to life the emotions of this personal\, cultural\, and political revolution. Artists and politicians\, athletes and lawyers\ , Black and white\, The Movement brings readers into the rooms wh ere these women insisted on being treated as first-class citizens and\, in the process\, changed the fabric of American life.
\nAbout the Author
\nClara Bingham is an award-winning journalist a nd the author of The Movement\, Witness to the Revolution\, Women on the Hill\, and the co-writer of Class Action. A former Washington\, DC\, correspondent for Newsweek\, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair\, The Guardian\, and The Daily Beast\, among othe rs. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
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