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“Bailey details the move from ‘calling’ to ‘dating’, and what that meant in terms of gender relations. The conventions of courtship were replaced by dating as people moved to cities to work in the early part of the 20th century. Bailey is unequivocal that this fundamentally altered the dynamic, because the man was expected to pay for a date. As he did the inviting, and the paying, it gave him control.” Read more...
Mia Levitin, Journalist
