Town Bloody Hall

On the evening of April 30, 1971, a standing room only audience of local literati and feminists packed New York City’s Town Hall to watch Norman Mailer, who had just written “The Prisoner of Sex,” grapple with a panel of passionate feminists. The subject was Women’s Liberation, an issue on which Mailer seemed like the devil’s own advocate.

Cast

Norman Mailer

Jacqueline Ceballos

Germaine Greer

Jill Johnston

Diane Trilling

Susan Sontag

Betty Friedan

Elizabeth Hardwick