Lori Rotskoff

A collection of short essays on the general topic of Free To Be You and Me and feminist ideals about childraising and gender socialization in the 1970s, including reminiscences from several of the key people. If you think pop culture doesn’t matter, you probably aren’t reading this, but the book offers direct testimony from children and adults who were profoundly affected by the messages in the book. William’s Doll shows up most often, probably, both as promising vision and as unfulfilled promise given that masculinity’s hold seems to have loosened less than femininity’s in many ways.… (more)