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Ruth Rosen, professor emerita of history at the University of California, Davis, is a senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute in Berkeley, Calif. and the author, most recently, of "The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America" (2001). This article was reprinted with permission from Dissent Magazine (Winter 2005).
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