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dynasaw

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12. Actually, Number 1 ought to be simply
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 11:58 AM
Feb 2012

not knowing the history. I've just retired as a college professor and you'd be surprised at how the 60's and 70's may have well been in the middle ages. The whole narrative of where women have been and how we've got to the present is one blank wall I am afraid for a great many younger women. All of your reasons are personal, and so they ought to be, but I think it terribly important that women need to also see themselves in a historical context. We can't see the gains or losses without knowing history. Used to be an old phrase that got a lot of going: "The personal is political."

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