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The movement : how women's liberation transformed America, 1963-1973 / Clara Bingham

Author
Bingham, Clara
Published
New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024.
Copyright Date
©2024
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Description
xvi, 558 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

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Contents
Introduction: An opening in history -- Part one: 1963-1968. Origin story : The feminine mystique -- Civil rights : free-dom -- Abortion : secret, secret, secret -- "Sex" is added to the Civil Rights Act -- WRAP : sex meets caste -- We just don't hire women : the EEOC's rocky start -- We don't give out birth control to unmarried people -- There's an actual woman running in the Boston Marathon -- NOW rising -- Crimes against chastity -- What was I wearing? -- Black Power : the patterns were very similar -- Newsweek's good girls -- NOW swings into action -- A program for radical women -- Wimbledon : the men get all the money -- Colleges desegregate : I am now a living relic -- Messing with Miss America -- The indomitable Shirley Chisholm -- Part two: 1969-1970. Take her off the stage and fuck her -- Mrs. Chisholm goes to Washington -- Shattering the abortion silence -- Slave of a slave : Black women's liberation -- Our bodies, ourselves -- NOW lesbians come out -- Code-name Jane -- The next great moment in history is theirs -- The Boston Tea Party of women's health -- Goodbye to all that -- Newsweek girls revolt -- Betty's last stand -- Shut out of academia -- Congress hears the ERA -- New York legalizes abortion -- We are your worst nightmare, your best fantasy -- The Whitney isn't with-it -- An idea whose time has come -- Don't iron while the strike is hot : Women's Strike for Equality -- Women's lob : the tennis boycott -- Making cunt art -- Sexual politics lights a fuse -- We are one -- The military is only for men -- Part three: 1971-1973. You've come a long way, baby -- In the room where it happened -- The past is studded with sisters -- Reed v. Reed and the birth of feminine jurisprudence -- Ms. and the cultural click -- National childcare : Nixon says no -- Shirley Chisholm runs for president -- The ERA passes with flying colors -- Bill Baird's supreme court victory -- Ginsburg stuns the Supreme Court -- Who are these girls? -- On the Chisholm trail -- The Education Act's surprise : Title IX -- Woman power 1972 at the Democratic Convention -- Exhibiting art by and for themselves -- The Supreme Court legalizes abortion -- Ginsburg (nearly) wins Frontiero big -- FBI closes its WLM files -- The battle of the sexes -- A model for political action -- We were beautiful Black women.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9781982144210 (hardcover)
1982144211 (hardcover)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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