This is called nostalgia. History was not neater, nor more uniform. The typical departure point in 1950s conformism, with the assumption that prior history mus

This is called nostalgia. History was not neater, nor more uniform. The typical departure point in 1950s conformism, with the assumption that prior history must have been even more conformist. But that's not how most of history treated gender roles, marriage, work, etc.