Rose George

Women beware women: young feminists are betraying their older sisters

For centuries, elderly women have been scorned as crones, hags and scolds – but it’s not only men who are belittling them now, says Victoria Smith

The Scold’s bridle, once used by men to gag their nagging wives. But older women are now getting it from all sides. [Alamy]

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