A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former
Newsweek
reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (
The
New York Times
)
Witness to the Revolution
.
For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem,
The Movement
is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it,
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.
This engaging history traces women’s awakening, organizing, and agitating between the years of 1963 and 1973, when a decentralized collection of people and events coalesced to create a spontaneous combustion. From Betty Friedan’s
The Feminine Mystique
, to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisholm’s presidential campaign and Billie Jean King’s 1973 battle of the sexes, Bingham artfully weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution. Artists and politicians, athletes and lawyers, Black and white,
brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first class citizens, and in the process, changed the fabric of American life.