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America's Stay-at-Home Feminists

By Linda Hirshman, The American Prospect. Posted November 24, 2005.


More and more women are leaving the workforce to stay home and raise kids. Has feminism failed?
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America's Stay-at-Home Feminists

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Linda R. Hirshman retired as the Allen/Berenson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis University. She is at work on a book about marriage after feminism. With almost no effort, she landed spot No. 77 on Bernard Goldberg’s "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America."

Copyright 2005 by The American Prospect, Inc. Originally published as "Homeward Bound". This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author. Direct questions about permissions to permissions@prospect.org.

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