The Women of Now: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America

by Katherine Turk

Book Overview

"A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read." --Clara Bingham, The Guardian

The history of NOW--its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission--told through the work of three members.

In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250338379
• ISBN13: 9781250338372
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Picador/Farrar Straus and Giroux
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 8.7"