This "is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the .... 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. ... 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 ... weaves together the fragments of that explosion person by person, bringing to life the emotions of this personal, cultural, and political revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
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