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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/MeghanClickYourHeels on 2023-07-30 17:39:11.
Hello hello! I am looking for two articles from the late 90s that I recall reading and I’m hoping someone here can help. I looked in the r/askalibrarian but it seems to be defunct.
There were these two articles that I’d read in magazines geared towards young women. In the 70s, the authors had become semi-famous by publicly advocating for traditional women’s roles in marriage. By the late 80s/early 90s, even though they’d stuck to The Plan and had done everything prescribed for a happy family, their husbands had divorced them and they were left with nothing. They were writing the articles trying to reverse the damage they’d done by telling women to fulfill the SAH model. Each story was so similar that I thought they’d been written by the same person, but after reading the second, I went back and looked at the first, and it had a different byline.
Here’s what I can remember that might be identifying:
- The articles were in magazines I would have been reading in high school written for young women, so Seventeen, Glamour, or Mademoiselle (RIP, it was my fave).
- They would have appeared in the mid-90s, so maybe 1993-1997.
- They were published maybe a year or two years apart.
- They had different bylines, although perhaps it really was the same person using a pseudonym for each publication.
- One article had the author recognizing her own hypocrisy by advocating for a traditional mothers-shouldn’t-work model while also developing a career for herself, traveling the country doing speaking gigs to promote this lifestyle.
Is there anyone who can assist with this? I didn’t make it up, I swear! Even if someone can find the titles or bylines, that would be a HUGE help…