The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973

The Movement is a comprehensive oral history of the feminist movement, featuring interviews with living icons and unsung heroes. It tells the intimate inside story of the decade that built the modern feminist crusade, from Betty Friedans' The Feminine Mystique to the underground abortion network the Janes to Shirley Chisholms' presidential campaign and Billie Jean King's 1973 battle of the sexes. It brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first-class citizens and changed the fabric of American life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 576 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

The Movement is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, featuring interviews with living icons and unsung heroes. Written by former Newsweek reporter and author of the "powerful and moving" Witness to the Revolution, the book tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade. The Movement traces women's awakening, organizing, and agitating between 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, The Movement brings readers into the rooms where these women insisted on being treated as first-class citizens and changed the fabric of American life.

Weight: 774g
Dimension: 163 x 239 x 41 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781982144210