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\nJoin us for a tran sformative conversation with award-winning journalist and author\, Clara B ingham\, as she chats with us about her new book\, \;The Movement: How Women&rsquo\;s Liberation Transformed America\, 1963-1973. \ ;
\nThe Movement \;is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement\, including inte rviews with living icons and unsung heroes. \;The Movement&nb sp\;is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who liv ed it\, \;The Movement \;tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted and needed to be.
\nThis engaging history tra ces women&rsquo\;s awakening\, organizing\, and agitating between 1963 and 1973 when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to cr eate a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan&rsquo\;s \;The F eminine 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 sexes\, Bingham artfully weaves together the f ragments of that explosion person by person\, bringing to life the emotion s of this personal\, cultural\, and political revolution. Artists and poli ticians\, athletes and lawyers\, Black and white\, \;The Movement< /em> \;brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on bei ng treated as first-class citizens and\, in the process\, changed the fabr ic of American life.
\nAbout the Author:
\nCl ara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of \;The Movement\, \;Witness to the Revolution\, \;Wome n on the Hill\, and the co-writer of \;Class Action. A f ormer Washington\, DC\, correspondent for \;Newsweek\, her wr iting has appeared in \;Vanity Fair\, \;The Guardian< /em>\, and \;The Daily Beast\, among others. She lives in Bro oklyn\, New York.
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