Feminism And Gender Equality In The 1990's

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of a story in McCall's in December 1949 called "A Weekend
with Daddy." A little girl who lives a lonely life with her mother,
divorced, an intellectual know-it-all psychologist, goes to the country to
spend a weekend with her father and his new wife, who is wholesome, happy,
and a good cook and gardener. And there is love and laughter and growing
flowers and hot clams and a gourmet cheese omelet and square dancing, and
she doesn't want to go home. But, pitying her poor mother typing away all
by herself in the lonesome apartment, she keeps her guilty secret that from
now on she will be living for the moments when she can escape to that
dream home in the country where they know "what life is all about." (See
Endnote #1)

I have often consulted my grandparents about their experiences, and
I find their historical perspective enlightening. My grandmother was
pregnant with her third child in 1949. Her work experience included:
interior design and modeling women's clothes ...

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and future. Psychological harm may be imminent. Mental and physical
health may be taxed by child care. There is also a distress, for all
concerned, associated with the unwanted child, and there is the problem of
bringing a child into a family already unable, psychologically and
otherwise, to care for it. In other cases, as in this one, the additional
difficulties and continuing stigma of unwed motherhood may be involved.
(See Endnote #2)

I feel the court decision of Roe v. Wade would not have been made
in 1949. Even in 1973, it was a progressive decision. The problem of
abortion has existed for the entire history of this country (and beyond),
but had never been ...

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