Join us for a transformative conversation with award-winning journalist and author\, Clara Bingham\, as she chats wi th us about her new book\, \;The Movement: How Women&rsquo\;s Liberati on Transformed America\, 1963-1973. \;
\nThe Movement \;is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the fe minist movement\, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes . \;The Movement \;is the first oral history of the decade that bu ilt the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voice s of the people who lived it\, \;The Movement \;tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern fe minist crusade when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demand ed the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.
\nThis engagi ng history traces women&rsquo\;s awakening\, organizing\, and agitating be tween 1963 and 1973 when a decentralized collection of people and events c oalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan&rsquo\;s&n bsp\;The Feminine Mystique \;to the underground abortion network the J anes\, to Shirley Chisholm&rsquo\;s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King&rsquo\;s 1973 battle of the sexes\, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person\, bringing to life the em otions of this personal\, cultural\, and political revolution. Artists and politicians\, athletes and lawyers\, Black and white\, \;The Movement \;brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being t reated as first-class citizens and\, in the process\, changed the fabric o f American life.
\nAbout the Author: \;Clara Bingham is an award -winning journalist and the author of \;The Movement\, \;Witness t o the Revolution\, \;Women on the Hill\, and the co-writer of \;Cl ass Action. A former Washington\, DC\, correspondent for \;Newsweek\, her writing has appeared in \;Vanity Fair\, \;The Guardian\, and&n bsp\;The Daily Beast\, among others. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
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