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The First Modern Woman

From the June/July 1999 Print Edition

Contrary to popular opinion, current American sexual practice began not in the “sexual revolution” of the 1960s but decades earlier, in the youth of our first modern girls, women now in their eighties. The first modern American women grew up in the 1920s and early 1930s, when Americans . . . . Continue Reading »