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 fem inist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people wh o lived it\, \;The Movement \;tells the intimate inside s tory of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist cr usade when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the fr eedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.
\nThis book traces wom en&rsquo\;s awakening\, organizing\, and agitating between 1963 and 1973 w hen a decentralized 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 Sh irley Chisholm&rsquo\;s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King&rsquo\; s 1973 battle of the sexes\, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragment s of that explosion person by person\, bringing to life the emotions of th is personal\, cultural\, and political revolution. Artists and politicians \, athletes and lawyers\, Black and white\, \;The Movement&nb sp\;brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being trea ted as first-class citizens and\, in the process\, changed the fabric of A merican life.
\nClara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the
author of \;The Movement\, \;Witness to the Revoluti
on\, \;Women on the Hill\, and the co-writer of \;