![]() ![]() ![]() The women orators who fought off mobs, in the days when women were not allowed to speak in public, to attack Family, Church and State, who travelled on poor railways to cow towns of the West to talk to small groups of socially starved women, were quite a bit more dramatic than the Scarlett O’Haras and Harriet Beecher Stowes and all the Little Women who have come down to us. As Shulamith Firestone wrote in The Dialectic of Sex, which came out in 1970, the year Mad Men ends:Ī hundred years of brilliant personalities and important events have also been erased from American history. ![]() Such amnesia is not exceptional, of course, especially when it comes to the history of social movements in the United States. But it’s also unsettling to see such historical amnesia given the show’s famously painstaking attention to period detail. As the series comes to a close, Netflix’s ad for the old episodes keeps appearing online with the line, “Before feminism, there was Peggy.”įor a show so deeply invested in the seductive powers of advertising, it’s funny to see it given such a banal tagline. The end of Mad Men calls to mind an advertisement - not an advertisement for Topax or Secours Laxative or any of the other products the show’s writers have pitched, but for the show itself. ![]()
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