NARRATOR: In art collectives, consciousness raising sessions and political meetings, women began to examine the specific terms of their collective and individual circumstances.  
 
  CHARMAINE: I don’t think that Ed ever loved me. I mean, he married me because I looked right it made a big impression on the other TV executives for his wife to look like I look. (loud breath, perhaps tears) He never loved me.  
 
  KIT: I didn’t bake anything yesterday. It took me so long to get the upstairs floor to shine, I didn’t have any time to bake.  
 
  NARRATOR: Like their mother’s before them, middle class women were expected to organize their lives around the concerns of husbands, children and housework.  
 
  NARRATOR cont'd: Second-wave feminism suggested that history and politics, not god and biology, were responsible for women's subordination to men.  
 
  KIT: I’ve been so busy, what with baking and all that. (giggle) I know I shouldn’t say this but I just love my brownies.  
 
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