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For the record, accusing women of being 'career feminists' is sexist

I’m a socialist. Let’s just start with that, OK? I’m anti-capitalist and I’m feminist and I’m living in a capitalist, patriarchal world. I am working class and I will likely always be.…

PODCAST: Stephanie Coontz on The Feminine Mystique, fifty years later

In 1963, “The Feminine Mystique“, a book often credited with sparking the second wave, was published. Betty Friedan interviewed housewives across America who found themselves unfulfilled in the roles that they were…

Podcast: On Hanna Rosin’s ‘end of men’

Are men on the decline? In Hanna Rosin’s new book, The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, she argues that as the world changed, women have adapted along with it,…

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For the record, accusing women of being 'career feminists' is sexist

PODCAST: Stephanie Coontz on The Feminine Mystique, fifty years later

Podcast: On Hanna Rosin’s ‘end of men’