About this Event
Join Mechanics' Hall and Back Cove Books in welcoming an award-winning journalist and author, Clara Bingham.
"The Movement is essential reading for anyone who aims to learn firsthand from a diverse group of leaders, believers, trailblazers of the feminist movement, but more importantly shows the lessons we must retain to keep fighting for gender equality, now more than ever."
—Mini Timmaraju, President and CEO of Reproductive Freedom for All
If history can shed light on the present, then what could be more essential than a look back 50 years to the birth of the women’s liberation movement? In , acclaimed author of Witness to a Revolution CLARA BINGHAM brings us the first comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons an unsung heroes.
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. 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.
Tickets are available for $8.00, or $40.50 for a copy of the book and admission.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the co-writer of Class Action. A former Washington, DC, correspondent for Newsweek, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mechanics' Hall, 519 Congress Street, Portland, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 45.06
