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Sure, even in the 50s and 60s we had come a very long way since the time of this book. But I found the comparison interesting, that in the 1970s you can still see rules of the nineteenth century showing in the male dominance of the marriage partnership. By the 1970s the dominance is weakened and much less all-encompassing, but it is still recognisable. We lived like that as the basic assumption, but barely a generation later and it seems unreal that anyone ever thought anything like that could be acceptable.
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