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April 15, 2008

Girlification is Destroying All the Hope We Felt in 1968

by Polly Toynbee, The Guardian, UK - So what's new? This is a year for reflection for my generation, especially women. What happened in 1968? What really changed? The year of riots saw feminism ignite too, a year hazed in an illusory miasma that nothing would be the same again - but of course it was. Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King were shot, 16,000 US soldiers died in Vietnam and Richard Nixon was elected. The world did not turn upside down. Feminist ideas more revolutionary than Che Guevara reached right into the heart of elemental things between women and men and families. Where is it now?

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