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The Movement
How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
PUBLISHED JULY 30, 2024
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A striking collection of women’s voices… there are so many extraordinary (and funny, and heartbreaking) stories of courage here from women of every stripe that it’s impossible to pick out just a few.”Financial Times
Clara Bingham’s masterful The Movement shows how women’s liberation transformed America and why our understanding of 1963-1973 needs to include more voices.”Washington Monthly
A stunning oral history of the women’s rights movement… Readers will be electrified.”Publishers Weekly
Advance Praise for The Movement
Who better to bear witness to this period of feminism than the remarkable activists who lived it? I will return to this book again and again. It feeds my soul. Clara Bingham has given us a gift for a lifetime.”
—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, novelist and author of Take My Hand
—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, novelist and author of Take My Hand
Clara Bingham has given the world an indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman—part history, part encyclopedia of a time, and an absolute page-turning drama, all in one.”
— Sally Jenkins, Washington Post sports columnist and author of The Right Call: What Sports Teach us about Work and Life and the Real All Americans
— Sally Jenkins, Washington Post sports columnist and author of The Right Call: What Sports Teach us about Work and Life and the Real All Americans
The Movement feels like just the recalling and reclaiming needed in this precarious moment for women’s rights. I’m excited for this generation to have a roadmap with real stories of trials and triumph for guidance.”
—Tarana Burke, Activist, Author, and Founder of the ‘me too.’ Movement
—Tarana Burke, Activist, Author, and Founder of the ‘me too.’ Movement