The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America, published on August 15, 2023 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Author Katherine Turk says, “I spent two decades researching NOW, a key force in history whose full story had never been told. The Women of NOW spotlights three diverse and lesser-known figures who worked to organize women across their differences. The book not only recasts the “second wave’s” victories, challenges, and unfinished business—it offers a new account of American history since the 1960s with organized feminism at the center. I wrote The Women of NOW to reach general readers as well as scholars and activists.”
Publishers Weekly calls The Women of NOW a “smart, clear-eyed history [that] expertly unpacks a complex institutional legacy. The result is a timely addition to the history of ‘second wave’ feminism that illuminates today’s debates about women’s rights.”
“I lived through the history inscribed in this book,” writes Vivian Gornick, author of Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader, “but I never understood it anywhere as richly as I do now, having had it all laid out for me with impressive clarity and imagination, as Katherine Turk has done.”
The Women of NOW is available wherever you buy books in print, audio, or digital formats. You might also consider requesting it for your academic or public library. As you may know, preorders are a huge help for authors hoping to get the attention of booksellers both small and large. Here are a few links that may be convenient:
–Flyleaf Books
–Women & Children First
–Macmillan