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 Libe ration Transformed America\, 1963-1973. \;
\nThe Moveme nt \;is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade t hat defined the feminist movement\, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes. \;The Movement \;is the first oral hi story of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the c aptivating individual voices of the people who lived it\, \;The Mo vement \;tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade when women rejected tho usands of years of custom and demanded the freedom to be who they wanted a nd needed to be.
\nThis engaging history traces women&rsquo\;s awake ning\, organizing\, and agitating between 1963 and 1973 when a decentraliz ed collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combu stion. From Betty Friedan&rsquo\;s \;The Feminine Mystique&nb sp\;to the underground abortion network the Janes\, to Shirley Chisholm&rs quo\;s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King&rsquo\;s 1973 battle of the sexes\, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosi on person by person\, bringing to life the emotions of this personal\, cul tural\, and political revolution. Artists and politicians\, athletes and l awyers\, Black and white\, \;The Movement \;brings reader s into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first-clas s citizens and\, in the process\, changed the fabric of American life.
\nAbout the Author: \;Clara Bingham is an award-wi nning journalist and the author of \;The Movement\, \;Witness to the Revolution\, \;Women on the Hill\, and the co-writer of&nb sp\;Class Action. A former Washington\, DC\, correspondent for&nb sp\;Newsweek\, her writing has appeared in \;Vanity Fair\ , \;The Guardian\, and \;The Daily Beast\, among oth ers. She lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
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