Pogrebin Summary

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Letty Cottin Pogrebin is an editor of Ms. magazine and a feminist.
The article was published on September 30th of 1990, but it appears to originally be from March 19, 1976. This article could be considered an immediate occasion because it was written 200 years after the declaration of independence, a document that Pogrebin believed first denied women their rights in the constitution, was signed.
This article is most likely meant to be read by women because, in the first sentence, Pogrebin is basically putting out a call to women to use the signing of the Declaration Of Independence to “challenge the American dream, not to celebrate it.”
The author aimed to give some information in her article. However, I believe the author’s main purpose was

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