Turbulent times and the myth of 'bra burning

quot;Bra-burning," I note in my latest book, Getting It Wrong, has long been a "convenient shorthand for describing the upheaval of the 1960s and early 1970s" in America. The term, I write, is often "casually invoked as a defining phrase, or cliché, of those troubled times—as in 'the era of bra-burning,' 'the hysteria of bra-burning,'…

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