Status Updates From Backlash: The Undeclared Wa...

"The Sunday magazine This Week advised its female readera; a college education 'skyrockets your chances of becoming an old maid.'

Advertisers reversed their wartime message - that women could work + enjoy a family life - claimed now that women must choose, + choose only home."

"Then as now, late-Victorian religious + political leaders accused women who postponed childbearing of triggering a 'race suicide' that endangered (white) America's future; they were, in the words of president Theodore Roosevelt, 'criminals against the race' + 'objects of contemptuous abhorrence by healthy people.' Married women who demanded rights were charged, then as now, with creating a 'crisis of the family.'"

it’s making me so angry that this book originally came out in 1991 and it is still so relevant