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How Women’s Liberation Transformed America

In Conversation with Clara Bingham

2025-03-20 14:00:00 2025-03-20 15:00:00 America/New_York How Women’s Liberation Transformed America Join us for a transformative conversation with award-winning journalist and author, Clara Bingham, about her new book, The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973. Virtual - Virtual

Thursday, March 20
2:00pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-03-20 14:00:00 2025-03-20 15:00:00 America/New_York How Women’s Liberation Transformed America Join us for a transformative conversation with award-winning journalist and author, Clara Bingham, about her new book, The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973. Virtual - Virtual

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Join us for a transformative conversation with award-winning journalist and author, Clara Bingham, about her new book, The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America, 1963-1973.

The Movement is a comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes. 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.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of Duncan Library and the Friends of Beatley Central Library.

Upcoming and previously broadcast author talks can be viewed here.

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