The first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the 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.
Rollicking 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.
Bingham’s judicious choices and editing result in a narrative both relevant and engaging ... This compilation effectively recreates a momentous decade.
