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1960s Anxiety: Women's Adultery Onscreen

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Linking Cleopatra’s plot to the contraceptive pill, Kinsey reports and Betty Friedan, Maria shows how the movie channelled America’s early-’60s panic over female sexuality and marital infidelity.

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