An Oral History of Second-Wave Feminism Makes Its Case With Style
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It's a common stereotype about second-wave feminism: all anger and no joy. When the syndicated columnist James J. Kilpatrick snidely reviewed the inaugural issue of Ms. magazine, he likened the reading experience to looking at the slides of carcinoma in a cancer magazine...
The Movement, a 559-page oral history of that era in women's liberation, is rollicking good fun. Clara Bingham demonstrates the exhilarating 10 years leading up to the Roe v. Wade decision, with first-person narratives, anecdotes, explications, and arguments.
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