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THE WOMEN OF NOW - KATHERINE TURK GEBUNDEN

A clear blueprint for change . . . A must-read. -Clara Bingham  The GuardianThe 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 front lines of the civil rights movement  had called this renegade
meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with
waiting for government action and trying to work with a broken system  they laid out a vision
for an organization to unite all women and fight for their rights. Alternately skeptical and
energized  they debated the idea late into the night. In less than twenty-four hours  the
National Organization for Women was born.In The Women of NOW  the historian Katherine Turk
chronicles the growth and enduring influence of this foundational group through three
lesser-known members who became leaders: Aileen Hernandez  a federal official of Jamaican
American heritage  Mary Jean Collins  a working-class union organizer and Chicago Catholic  and
Patricia Hill Burnett  a Michigan Republican  artist  and former beauty queen. From its bold
inception through the tumultuous training ground of the 1970s  NOW's feminism flooded the
nation  permanently shifted American culture and politics  and clashed with conservative forces
presaging our fractured national landscape. These women built an organization that was radical
in its time but flexible and expansive enough to become a mainstream fixture. This is the story
of how they built it-and built it to last.Includes 16 pages of black-and-white images

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