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Article: Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- April 29, 1991
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After nearly thirty years of the women's movement, as we begin a new decade at the end of the century, there's a tendency to look back and to assess where we are and where we're going-a fairly widespread tendency, judging from the number of books currently doing this. Lillian Rubin's Erotic Wars, Anita Shreve's Women Together, Women Alone and Ruth Sidel's On Her Own are attempts to assess change. All agree that a revolution has taken place and that the texture of women's lives has been radically altered by the women's movement. Each focuses on a different aspect of this revolution-Rubin on the sexual revolution, Shreve on the legacy of consciousness raising, Sidel on ...