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"Twilight Sleep:" Is The Past Prologue for Today's Debates Over Birthing Choices?

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

September 29, 2009 - 6:00am

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Mad Men fans were shocked recently as Betty gave birth in a "twilight sleep" while hallucinating and tied to the bed. This once common practice was ended through the kind of advocacy we need to expand birthing choices today.

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Values Voters Summit Promotes 'New Masculinity' of Ignorance and Fury

By Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

September 21, 2009 - 7:00am

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The Family Research Council wants you to be manly. So the Values Voter Summit, the annual confab of ultra-conservative political and religious leaders, tried to be hip with a fundamentalist-inspired reenactment of "Mad Men."

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Struggle in a World of Privilege: A Mad Men Salon

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 21, 2009 - 7:00am

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Even as we anticipate watching the women who work at Sterling Cooper struggle with changing gender roles, we are watching that struggle take place in a privileged world.

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You Can't Keep the Lid On Forever: A Mad Men Salon

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 20, 2009 - 7:00am

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"Mad Men" is all about the hard truths, and the hard truth is that being a woman forging her own path in the early 60s was very lonely indeed.

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Pour A Stoli While the World Burns: A Mad Men Salon

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 18, 2009 - 7:00am

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Hold on to your hats: the 60s are coming to Sterling Cooper! Will Don Draper and his ilk go from icons of cool to losers holding back the tide of progress?

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"Mad Men" Salon: America's Struggle with Race, Shaken Not Stirred

By Pamela Merritt, RH Reality Check

August 14, 2009 - 7:00am

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Mad Men presents an exploration of race, class, and gender in the not-so-distant past that challenges the notion that all was well back in the day and keeps this fan coming back for more.

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I Am A Mad Woman

By Crystal Merritt

August 13, 2009 - 2:06pm

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The number and influence of women in advertising have grown to such an extent that we must now hold ourselves accountable for what we achieve, and how.

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Women or Objects? A "Mad Men" Salon

By Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check

August 13, 2009 - 7:00am

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True, second wave feminists didn't burn their bras--or their girdles or their garters--but "Mad Men" suggests that they probably should have.

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Nostalgia for Those Louts: A "Mad Men" Salon

By Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check

August 12, 2009 - 7:00am

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Astute and unflinching examination of gender politics has proved to be the secret of the rise of "Mad Men" in popular culture. RH Reality Check is hosting a salon on the program.

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