Word: purdah
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...threat to the other. Communism would abolish the family, and conversely, any loosening of our traditional sex roles would weaken our defense against communism. So you did not have to believe in the natural inferiority of women, or in the necessity of their natural confinement to the high-tech purdah of American middle class kitchens, to see that there was something menacing about feminism...
What worries me is that my worst fears about another four years of misery cooped up in purdah in a back room at Downing Street seem all too justified. With a 200-seat majority, can you imagine what shell be like...