RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewRollicking good fun ... Bingham’s curation is historically astute. It gives credit where credit is due and correctly contextualizes second-wave feminism as a direct outgrowth of the civil rights movement ... The power of personal narrative undergirds the entirety of The Movement.
Katherine Spillar
PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewUnderstandably, 50 Years of Ms. has been edited and curated so that the magazine is painted in the best possible light. As such, any of its missteps appear few and far between ... Elements of this compendium feel weirdly rooted in the past ... Still, the book contributes a lot more to the conversation than it ignores ... The recurring reader letters are fascinating and often powerful.
Jane Dailey
MixedThe New York Times Book Review... well-researched ... not a belief likely to surprise those literate in African-American history, but [Dailey\'s] argument that fear of Black sexuality and miscegenation has been the driving force behind structural racism and white supremacy is confident and persuasive ... Strangely missing from Dailey’s book is any consideration of white women’s complicity in racialized anxiety and violence against Black people. Though she devotes attention to Emmett Till, she has little to say about Carolyn Bryant Donham, the white woman who set Till’s murder in motion by falsely accusing him of assault. Surely white women contributed to what Baldwin called white Americans’ \'infantile, furtive sexuality\' and played a significant role in reinforcing, upholding and exploiting this country’s racial apartheid.
