Clara Bingham at the Cambridge Public Library

Harvard Book Store and the Cambridge Public Library welcome Clara Bingham—award-winning journalist and the author of Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill—for a discussion of her new book The Movement: How Women's Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973. She will be in conversation with Judy Norsigian, Joan Ditzion, Jane Pincus, and Norma Swenson—co-authors of the groundbreaking book Our Bodies, Ourselves.

Ticketing

RSVP for free to this event or choose the "Book-Included" ticket to reserve a copy of The Movement and pick it up at the event. There will be a book signing following the presentation.

About The Movement

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.

Praise for The Movement

"Clara Bingham has given the world an indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman—part history, part encyclopedia of a time, and an absolute page-turning drama, all in one." —Sally Jenkins, Washington Post sports columnist and author of The Right Call: What Sports Teach Us About Work and Life and The Real All Americans

"Read this book! Bingham gives us the gift of private conversations with the extraordinary women who forged our own path to power." —Katty Kay, New York Times bestselling author of The Confidence Code

"The old adage about being condemned to repeat the history that we don't know could not ring more true than it does right now. The Movement feels like just the recalling and reclaiming needed in this precarious moment for women's rights. It reminds us that we have had our backs up against higher and harder walls before and the collective strength, will and tenacity of women pulled us over those obstacles and through those times. I'm excited for this generation to have a roadmap with real stories of trials and triumph for guidance." —Tarana Burke, Activist, Author, and Founder of the ‘me too.’ Movement

Masking Policy

Masks are encouraged but not required for this event.