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...this Women's Lib thing" filters in through television and newspapers. The library has copies of Simone de Beauvoir's Second Sex and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique on its shelves, but not Kate Millett's Sexual Politics or Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch. The crisp explanation from Librarian Jeannette Winter: "I'll get them as soon as three people ask for them...
...women of disparate interests and backgrounds: young wives, working women, farm women, members of the Red Oak aristocracy. The largest group of feminists is made up of young wives and mothers. Some are outspoken, by Red Oak standards. Debbie Bulkeley, 30, flatly states: "I identify with Women's Lib. I watch one of those women on Johnny Carson and I think, That's me.' Then I get up the next day, feed the kids and clean house and it wears off. Still it makes me so mad to be always Mrs. Richard Bulkeley...
...Ross Davis are perhaps typical of the resistance to Women's Lib in Red Oak by both men and women. "When my husband married me he said, 'I'm Ross the Boss and don't ever forget it,' " says Mrs. Davis. Insurance Salesman Ross Davis adds: "I believe in Women's Liberation. I think my wife should do whatever she wants-as long as she asks my permission." Many Red Oak women agree with Doctor's Wife Jane Smith: "A woman's place is in the home taking care of her children...
...Lib Lip Service. Desperate if not deep signs of change are becoming visible. Now in its 19th year, Playboy is maintaining its posture of dauntless virility while trying to be less of a male chauvinist pig about it. Recently "The Playboy Adviser"-Hefner's answer to "Dear Abby"-piously rebuked a reader who asked if Playboy would help him persuade his wife to give up her career. "To deprive her of a chance to feel valuable to herself and society above and beyond the roles of wife and mother would be not only selfish but cruel," the "Adviser" preached...
...Playboy Forum," the magazine's letters column, also does conspicuous Lib lip service, especially on the issue of legalized abortion, though the guffaws of pregnancy jokes continue to echo from other pages. But other questions seem to trouble Playboy readers-and the editor who selects which letters to print-far more. How much does one tip a blackjack dealer? What is malmsey wine? How does a fellow get-and get rid of-the crabs? Why do Japanese girls think American men smell bad? (Answer: carnivorous Americans eat ten times as much meat as Japanese and their odors prove...