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ByBrett Harvey

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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.” –Edward Morgan

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Many think of America in the 1950s as our last happy decade, with every family just like the one in |Leave it to Beaver| and every woman living just like Donna Reed. In fact, it was a time of great fear, especially for women, and especially the fear of not fitting in. As a woman, you were odd if you graduated from college without being married; if you were married you were odd if you didn't immediately have children; if you had children you were odd if you also wanted to work. Before the feminist movement, women were treated as second-class citizens whose roles were utterly restricted, and The Fifties: A Women's Oral History fully explores those roles, the women who lived them, and the women who broke the molds.