Linda Hirshman: Reckoning with Irin Carmon

Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first tales of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s, to the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal—when liberal women largely forgave Clinton, giving men a free pass for two decades. Many liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus.

And yet, legal, political, and cultural efforts, often spearheaded by women of color, were quietly paving the way for the takedown of abusers and harassers. Reckoning delivers the stirring tale of a movement catching fire as pioneering women in the media exposed the Harvey Weinsteins of the world, women flooded the political landscape, and the walls of male privilege finally began to crack. This is revelatory, essential social history.

Linda Hirshman is a cultural historian, lawyer, and author of the Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment, New York Times bestseller Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World and Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution.

Irin Carmon is a senior correspondent at New York magazine and a CNN contributor. She is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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