During the 1970s, a cultural war in the United States resulted in a growing national debate about major social issues and matters of the most intimate personal nature regarding the family, gender roles, and sexual relations. Two extremely bright, well-educated, and attractive women were at the forefront of this cultural contest: the journalist Gloria Steinem, a graduate of Smith College, and Phyllis Schlafly, who received a master’s degree from Radcliffe College and both an undergraduate and a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis. Journalism and law were two of the battlegrounds on which Steinem and Schlafly fought in the cultural conflict that only mounted in intensity as the decade continued. While Steinem was in the vanguard of the women’s movement that reemerged in the 1960s, Schlafly was a key figure in the development of the New Right, which contested the changes in personal and social relations that many Americans considered essential.