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Right Wing Moral Panic: "The Crisis of Masculinity"

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The Undeclared War Against American Women

Deregulation meant that one income wasn't enough to sustain Americans with a middle class lifestyle. Women were entering the workforce inevitably created stresses in the family renegotiations of gender roles it undermined the exclusive kind of economic and cultural power of the male as head of household. And, you know, I think the whole conservative right wing and Christian movement is something like something of a backlash against that fundamental change that's been happening for a long time.

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