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Somewhere near the beginning of the book she talks about a documentary on the women's movement in the 70's and it talked about women dressing and acting like freaks out of their anger at how they were treated, I think one of the women wore crocodile shoes, or something like that? Can someone tell me what that documentary is?

Cagne "Hochman’s movie played for five nights in New York City’s Greenwich Village to sold-out crowds in 1973, and then, except for a handful of screenings,…more"Hochman’s movie played for five nights in New York City’s Greenwich Village to sold-out crowds in 1973, and then, except for a handful of screenings, mostly disappeared from public view for forty-two years. In 2004, the Washington Post described Year of the Woman as having been “too radical, too weird, and too far ahead of its time for any distributor to touch.”3 When, in 2015, I was assigned to write about it as a feminist journalist heading into the 2016 presidential election, I immediately understood what had made it so charged and dangerous, what had made it too much: it was a celluloid time capsule, its wholly unfiltered view of women’s outrage, acute and strange to contemporary ears and eyes, trapped in amber."

Sandra Hochman - Year of the Woman (1973)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070937/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYKi5...(less)

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Why can't I find this book anywhwere?

Thomas I checked it out from the library...but I was wait-listed for quite a while. Worth the wait, but glad I didn't buy it.…moreI checked it out from the library...but I was wait-listed for quite a while. Worth the wait, but glad I didn't buy it.(less)

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