Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host Pulling the Thread. Today, I'm joined by award-winning journalist Clara Bingham to discuss her new book, The Movement.

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Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of Pulling the Thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand who we are and why we're here. Pulling the thread is about big questions. Why we do what we do, how we can understand our own experiences within a larger spiritual and historical

context, the ways in which we might begin to understand ourselves and each other better,

and what's required to heal ourselves and our world. I'll be joined in conversation by

luminaries and wise elders, those who have laid tracks in their work and lives to help us

bring meaning and understanding

to a world that often feels chaotic and overwhelming.

My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance and plant tiny seeds of awareness

so that we might all collectively learn and grow.

So I got one night, late night, I was working in February and I printed out the PDF

of this and went down, it went alphabetically, and the fourth name was Joan Bingham, who's my mother.

And she had died about a year and a half before I was writing this chapter

and had neglected to tell me that she had put her name on this iconic list, which is now

taught in a lot of women's studies classes. And suddenly this story, which was really about that generation, suddenly

became part of my life. So says Clara Bingham, an award-winning journalist and author who has

spent most of her career writing about women's and social justice issues, often as oral histories.

The movement, how women's liberation transformed America

between the years of 1963 and 1973 is her newest and fourth book, and it's the subject

of our conversation today. It's an oral history, meaning that she pulls and interviews the women

...