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Being able to control your reproduction is essential to women's ability to flourish in the United States.

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In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

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Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.

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Since the late 19th century, the median age of first marriage for women had fluctuated between 20 and 22. This had been the shape, pattern and definition of female life.

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Up until 1920, women couldn't vote. Until 1974, married women couldn't get their own credit cards or, in some cases, their own loans. Basically, the husband's professional, social, and economic identity covered the individual identity of the wife.

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The vast majority of women who marry still take their husband's name. And I'm not vilifying that behavior! But that's a pattern where women are truly still taking on their husbands' identities.

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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.

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Blogs with feminist content, from 'Feministing' and 'Jezebel' to 'Racialicious' and 'Shakesville' and 'Feministe,' have opened up and changed the scope of the feminist universe for women who might never have encountered contemporary feminism.

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Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.

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It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off gender as an independent locus of oppression, we dilute the strength of a women's movement, or of women's rights advocacy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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