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The 1920s Through the Looking Glass of Gender: A Response to David Montgomery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Susan Porter Benson
Susan Porter Benson
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University of Missouri-Columbia
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International Labor and Working-Class History , Volume 32 , Fall 1987 , pp. 31 - 38
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Copyright © International Labor and Working-Class History, Inc. 1987

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NOTES

My thanks to Tani Barlow, Edward Benson, Dina Copelman, David Roediger, and Sharon Strom for their extraordinarily helpful and perceptive comments on a draft of this critique.

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