The Movement
How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
- Auteur: Clara Bingham (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Atria Books
- Verschijnt: 30 juli 2024
- Omvang; 576 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $32.50 / $16.99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Clara Bingham The Movement recensie en reviews
- “Nobody burned a bra and it wasn’t just White feminism. Having lived and covered the modern Women’s Movement, I welcome Clara Bingham’s compelling book, an enlightening record for new generations. And a chilling reminder of rights still under attack today. This is invaluable living history.” (Lynn Sherr, journalist, author, feminist historian)
- “Bingham celebrates the women who brought about change. Ranging across politics, health, employment, sports, and the arts, and including BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices, this compilation effectively recreates a momentous decade.” (Booklist)
- “A fascinating oral history of the women’s movement from 1963 to 1973, a decade when so much progress was made and so much more seemed just beyond the horizon.” (Parade)
Flaptekst van het boek over vrouwenemancipatie in Amerika van Clara Bingham
A comprehensive and engaging oral history of the decade that defined the feminist movement, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes—from former Newsweek reporter and author of the “powerful and moving” (The New York Times) Witness to the Revolution.
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.
Clara Bingham (1983, Louisville, Kentucky) is an award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the cowriter 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.