March of 1973 the revived Berks are held at Rutgers.
Uses of “culture” are sill largely in association l with the male realm, mirroring the nature/culture divide of women’s liberation movement theroy.
Judith R. Walkowitz and Daniel J. Walkowitz refer to a “repressive moral culture imposed on women”
Linda Gordon “In a system that deprived women of the opportunity to make extra- familial contributions to culture, it was inevitable that they should be more strongly identified with sex than men were.” Daniel Scott Smith notes “the centrality of attacks on male culture in such movements as temperance.”
Laura Oren refers to “Male Working Class Culture.” Nancy Cott and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg two authors most strongly associated with the development of the concept of women’s culture didn’t even use the word culture in their articles.
Activist Jo Freeman, also a Ph.D. in sociology, presented summer of 1974 at APA, in which she argued that “the major feminist issues [included] … building of female culture”[1]
[1] Later published in published in acta sociologica 1975