“The young women of today are a race of culturally induced schizophrenics,” the Radcliffe yearbook for 1964 declared. “They are reared and trained to be the equals of men, and have heard innumerable stories of women who carved out places for themselves in science or politics. Yet these women are also fed the Great American myth of house and home, of children and of a husband with pipe in mouth, paper in hand, and wife on his lap.” The problem, the yearbook editors proclaimed, “is unique to our generation.” Every generation thought it was unique, but this one could feel the ground moving
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