Intermittently interesting and occasionally compelling history of the feminist movement's early days. The principal effort is to assemble as many squares of the "magic quilt" — to borrow a term from one of the film's subjects — as possible: the economic activists, the sexual activists, the class activists, the race activists, the educational activists, et alia. On that front, at least, it succeeds; director Mary Dore pulls together a broad range of voices and digs up a plethora of period footage and photos. But some stories are more compelling than others, there are some terrible reenactments, and the use of Madison Avenue as evidence for women's oppression is dated at best. Works best when it dives into the details: how Our Bodies, Ourselves came to be written and expanded through readers' anecdotal feedback, how activists worked to make the Women's Strike of 1970 actually happen, how women came together to create an underground mobile abortion service in the days before Roe v. Wade. (2014) — Matthew Lickona
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