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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oak's only card-carrying feminist is N.O.W. Member Elizabeth Richards, 59. A Radcliffe graduate, the wife of a lawyer and a member of one of Red Oak's oldest, wealthiest families, she joined N.O.W. "as soon as they opened up their membership...
...criticize married women for working. Retired Assistant Postmaster Gordon Will notes: 'They used to say, 'What does she think she's doing out of the house?' You don't hear them talk like that any more." Though there is little feminist rhetoric in Red Oak, issues are discussed in the bridge clubs and beauty parlors. Few women said they opposed abortion; equal pay for equal work is an accepted axiom. In principle, most women say they would send their children to a good day-care center; in practice, a child-care center opened last year...
...Oak, "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...
Among the library's likely customers are 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...
...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...