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Bailey proposes that just as metaphors of economy replaced metaphors of home and family that metaphors of revolution replaced metaphors of economy. Change was in the air and unmasked power was at stake. Sex became a power struggle for freedom, equality, and autonomy. Both men and women achieved new freedom in some ways, though the revolution may not have offered true freedom.

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Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-century America