Women who don’t know our history are doomed to repeat it. The achievements of the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s were nothing short of epochal. American women were under de facto male financial guardianship, prevented from access to birth control unless married, subject to back alley abortion life-or-death peril, limited to few career options — nurse, teacher and stewardess.
Their lives were literally unimaginable to the generations of women that have come since, perhaps one explanation for the new fascination with “tradwife” and the conservative push for disenfranchising women and stay at home maternity — even as MAGA female leaders clad in HRC pantsuits leave their kids at home with dad or nanny and run major Trump administration agencies and policy projects.
The hypocrisy is unfathomable.
In this interview, Clara Bingham, author of the first oral history of the movement, and I talk about this latest cycle of anti-woman backlash.
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