The wide appeal of the bra-burning meme
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In researching Getting It Wrong, I found a long-overlooked, contemporaneous account in the Press of Atlantic City that said "bras, girdles, falsies, curlers, and copies of popular women’s magazines burned in the 'Freedom Trash Can.'"
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55 Historical Misconceptions We All Believed
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Those bra-burning times': And just when were they?
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100 Women: The truth behind the 'bra-burning' feminists
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Fire with Fire: 9780358329732: Soria, Destiny: Books
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Ban The Bra Mm, Wait, No, Burn The Bra Um, Aw Shit! - » The Australian Independent Media Network
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The Bra Burners, by Art Buchwald, Sept. 12, 1968 / Women's Liberation Movement Print Culture / Duke Digital Repository
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Bra Burning GIFs - Find & Share on GIPHY
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Feminism Has a Bra-Burning Myth Problem
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