In Reckoning The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse And HarassmentLinda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social change movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond. Linda Hirshman details significant legal cases that quietly paved the way for the takedown of workplace abusers and harassers.

Reckoning is stirring, essential history for women of all ages. Prepare to meet the most important—and in some cases the most unsung—feminist heroes of the past fifty years.

Linda Hirshman will be available for Q&A and book signing.

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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In Reckoning, Linda Hirshman, acclaimed historian of social change movements, delivers the sweeping story of the struggle leading up to #MeToo and beyond: from the first stories of workplace harassment percolating to the surface in the 1970s; to the fulcrum of Clinton/Lewinsky, when a forgiving Gloria Steinem “swerved” so that, according to Hirshman, “for two decades most liberal men in the Democratic party didn't take feminists seriously." Legal liberals even resisted the movement to end rape on campus. And then came Harvey Weinstein and the reckoning.

Hirshman tells the full story of the legal cases that have quietly prepared the way for the takedown of the abusers and harassers of the workplace, and holds up African American women as having taken some of the most important stands against sexual harassment over the past fifty years. Finally, Reckoning shines fascinating light on how our watershed #MeToo moment has come from pioneering women in the new media.

Reckoning is a movement-defining, revelatory, essential social history.

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Join leading feminists Linda Hirshman and Rebecca Traister for a stirring exploration of the fight against sexual harassment over the past 50 years.

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

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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 will be joined in conversation with Margaret Sullivan from The Washington Post.