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hundreds of thousands of young activists mobilized against the gender assumptions
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
while 85 percent of children born to upper-class families are raised by both of their birth parents, only 30 percent of those born to working-class families are.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
They formed consciousness-raising groups all over the country, challenged the gender division of labor in the home, demanded reproductive rights, and railed against the sexual double standard.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
The elevation of male heroism reflected a widespread invocation of traditional gender roles.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
“With political victory, the ideological conflicts that have swirled about this nation for half a century now show clear signs of breaking into naked ideological warfare in which the very foundations of our republic are threatened and that we had better take heed.”
Jane Mayer • Dark Money
It was fine to have ambitions, but it was another matter to work out of necessity, face a sex-segregated job market, and do double duty at home as well.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Although at first glance the “new” family
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Senator Bob Dole, who’d hoped to snatch the presidential election from Bill Clinton, saw an irresistible wedge issue. He got Georgia Republican Bob Barr (thrice married) to introduce a “Defense of Marriage Act” in the US House. Barr declaimed it like a fire-and-brimstone sermon: “The very foundations of our society are in danger of being burned.
... See moreLillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Isolationists and Nazi sympathizers took their stand in the 1930s; their influence evaporated only with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941, and Adolf Hitler’s subsequent declaration of war on the United States. Then there was the anti-Communist hysteria of the early Cold War period and the white Southern defense of
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