Month: March 2022
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The Woman and the Stick
In 1922, New York Times Magazine published an opinion column — written by the pseudonymous “A Barbarian Bachelor” — advocating for wife-beating. It seems a safe bet he remained a bachelor for a while after this. Woman feels in her natural sphere, and therefore satisfied and happy when she is controlled absolutely by a man.…
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The Wild West’s Own New York
What place did New York occupy in the American imagination in 1922? This piece by Anne O’Hara McCormick acknowledged it was the highest-population city and the country’s cultural capital, but noted that in a nation so geographically large (and still expanding), it couldn’t dominate the nation as some European countries’ political and/or cultural capitals did.…
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