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...REVOLT OF AMERICAN WOMEN (224 pp.)-Oliver Jensen-Harcourf, Brace...
Queen Victoria called it a "mad, wicked folly," and was not amused. But male observers, then and later, have been both amused and convinced. The latest, Oliver Jensen, lets the camera make his sharpest comment for him. His picture history, The Revolt of American Women, chronicles more than half a century of rapid change which carried the female of the U.S. species "from bloomers to Bikini-from feminism to Freud." In text and captions, Author Jensen shines up an old masculine brief to new brightness, i.e., that the fight for equality began as a war between the sexes and ended...
Ironically, the granddaughter of the girl who stamped into a business office as her right, says Author Jensen, is often stranded behind a typewriter out of necessity. While winning elbowroom at the men's bar, she has lost her seat in the subway. Where the advance-guard girl once fought to get into college and out of corsets, she now fights to stay out of the divorce courts and off the analyst's couch But most of Author Jensen's photos go back to the days when the U.S. woman was just trying on her "new freedom...
...shot from the 1880s, three bustled and beskirted ladies skip rope, flashing a daring inch of petticoat. In another decade, bicycling was the craze, as Author Jensen illustrates, though the Boston Women's Rescue League warned that 30% of all fallen women had at some time been bicycle riders. After a "long night in armor," a 1910 gym picture shows a bevy of union-suited beauties straining at pushups, pulleys and punching bags. In another 1910 photograph, Julia Ward Howe, at the age of 91, is being wheeled to a suffrage drive to recite her Battle Hymn...
...Author Jensen ends his picture parade in the middle of a counterrevolution with Psychiatrist Marynia Farnham calling women "the lost sex," Philip Wylie calling "mom" a "jerk," and another critic jabbing at modern women who "regard their husbands not as mates, or men, or even mice, but as mats." But even if modern woman heeds her modern critics and beats a retreat for home, warns Author Jensen, she will never again make it her only beat...