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Join us for this recorded interview with award-winning author Clara Bingham, who explores the women's liberation movement through oral histories. Stay for a thoughtful discussion with an RPL librarian
Join us at the Pleasant Street Center to watch this recorded interview with award-winning author and journalist Clara Bingham, whose latest work The Movement explores the women's liberation movement through oral histories that defined feminism, including interviews with living icons and unsung heroes.
Stay for a thoughtful discussion about this political, personal, and cultural revolution.
Bingham's work traces women’s awakening, organizing, and agitating between 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.
About the Author: Clara Bingham is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Movement, Witness to the Revolution, Women on the Hill, and the co-writer of Class Action. A former Washington, DC, correspondent for Newsweek, her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian, and The Daily Beast, among others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
This program is generously sponsored byt the Friends of the Reading Public Library. Thank you, Friends!
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | In-Person Event | Friends Sponsored Program | Friends Speaker Series | Brochure | Author Event |
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If the Reading Public schools are closed due to snow, all Children's programming will be canceled.
