About this Event
Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Clara Bingham—award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill—for a discussion of her new book The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973. She will be in conversation with Judy Norsigian, Joan Ditzion, Jane Pincus, and Norma Swenson—co-authors of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves.
Ticketing
RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a copy of The Movement and pick it up at the event. There will be a book signing following the presentation.
About The Movement
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, 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.
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, The Movement 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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 37.25
