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A Girl’s Right to Have Fun subscriber-only content

Susan Pedersen

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When I was an undergraduate in the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s, social history was a much admired discipline. We trudged across campus lawns with sacred texts in our rucksacks (The Making of the English Working Class, Work and Revolution in France), convinced that we were acquiring the tools to explain – and, we naturally assumed, alter – relations of power and domination.

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Susan Pedersen teaches British and European history and political thought at Columbia University.