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Author Talk: The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America with Clara Bingham

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2025-03-20 11:00:00 2025-03-20 12:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America with Clara Bingham Join us for a transformative conversation with journalist and author, Clara Bingham, as she chats with us about her new book, The Movement. This book is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement. Virtual Program -

Thursday, March 20
11:00am - 12:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-03-20 11:00:00 2025-03-20 12:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America with Clara Bingham Join us for a transformative conversation with journalist and author, Clara Bingham, as she chats with us about her new book, The Movement. This book is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement. Virtual Program -

Join us for a transformative conversation with journalist and author, Clara Bingham, as she chats with us about her new book, The Movement. This book is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement.

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 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.

About the Author: Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Movement, 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, and The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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