In Bed With The Right: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
The Feminist Present
The Retrenchment of Gender Roles in the Post-War Era
The gender order that we think of as being like very, very solid in 1950s white suburban middle-class families was actually the product of a decades-long ideological project. And there was really an imposition of like a gender super ego on women who were sort of made subject to this version of revisionist Freudianism. This retrenchment of gender roles in the post-war era with the therapeutic as sort of a handmaiden to it.
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