A General Air of Anxiety - 3 Quarks Daily

A General Air of Anxiety - 3 Quarks Daily

Joan Scott in Boston 50 Review: “The personal is the political” was a reality for me long before it became the mantra of Second Wave feminism in the United States. In 1951, when I was ten years old, my father, Samuel Wallach, a New York City high school teacher, was suspended from his job for refusing to cooperate with an investigation into communism in the public schools. He was fired for insubordination two years later—one of some 350 teachers…