Women on the Move

First edition follows the sell-out Anniversary Edition for the 35th Anniversary of the First National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, 1977. "Making Women's History Visible: Diana Mara Henry’s iconic images chronicle many of the historic moments and great men and women of late twentieth century America. By beginning Women on the Move with images from her own background, Henry provides important context for her development as a photojournalist and a feminist. As she...
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First edition follows the sell-out Anniversary Edition for the 35th Anniversary of the First National Women's Conference in Houston, Texas, 1977. "Making Women's History Visible: Diana Mara Henry’s iconic images chronicle many of the historic moments and great men and women of late twentieth century America. By beginning Women on the Move with images from her own background, Henry provides important context for her development as a photojournalist and a feminist. As she chronicles women’s fight against social, political, and economic oppression, and for peace, equal rights, and protection of the earth, we come to understand Henry’s passion for women’s dignity and empowerment. In Women on the Move, Diana Mara Henry’s striking photographs bring to life the excitement, the tension, the joy, and the drama of this inspiring period in which anything seemed possible. No one gives us candid photographic portraits like Henry, and they’re all here: Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and many, many more. Through Henry’s eyes, we see these women as heroic, but also deeply human. Her image of Eunice Shriver’s careworn face in a pensive moment at the 1972 Democratic convention reveals a profound beauty. Women on the Move is a passionate celebration of one woman’s vision and talent, and many women’s activism and progress. It will delight and inspire. (From the Foreward by Nancy C. Unger, the author of Beyond Nature's Housekeepers: American Women in Environmental History-Oxford University Press).This edition includes photographs of Diane Von Furstenberg, Patricia Funt, Phyllis Schlafly, Fran Lebowitz, Alice Neel, Judy Chicago, Ms. Lillian Carter, Lily Tomlin, Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Jean Stapleton, Betty Friedan - and the men they’re hobnobbing with: Stewart Mott, Allen Ginsberg, André Leon Talley, Tom Hayden. Not only celebrities, but women in all walks of life from France to Bali to Vermont, and at home, work, and events from the Women’s Pentagon Action to society champagne toasts on the rooftops of Paris: sword swallowers, performing cats, mares at stud, jockeys, performance artists, brides, working moms, actresses, models, and lovers.