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

For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, 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 , to the underground abortion network the Janes, to Shirley Chisolm’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.