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The myth of gendered emotion, with Praga Agarwal

Doing It Right with Pandora Sykes

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How Women Are Adapting to Changes in the Workplace

You also write about conduct books, which we now know of as sort of slightly humorous mini books that you can find on the carousel at the front of the bookstore. These conduct books were again mostly written by men and they primarily targeted young women. What it did was to give these kind of detailed extensive codes of behavior that women should be conforming to. And so these were kind of a backlash to women becoming more independent and destabilizing social structures.

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