sexual revolution

Examples of sexual revolution in the following topics:

• The Sexual Revolution

  • The sexual revolution of the 1960s marked a shift in thinking about sexuality along with a growing acceptance of premarital sex and birth control.
  • The quest for autonomy during this time was also characterized by changes toward sexual attitudes, generally referred to as the "sexual revolution."
  • Like much of the radicalism of the 1960s, the sexual revolution was most apparent on university campuses.
  • The Pill and the sexual revolution was therefore an important part of the drive for sexual equality in the 1960s.
  • The Pill had a profound impact on feminism and the sexual revolution.

• Gay and Lesbian Rights

  • The sexual revolution and the feminist movement of the 1960s establish a climate that fostered the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
  • Combined with the sexual revolution and the feminist movement of the 1960s, the counterculture helped establish a climate that fostered the struggle for gay and lesbian rights.
  • More often than not, it was seen as a malaise or mental illness instead of a legitimate sexual orientation.
  • By 1974, the APA had ceased to classify homosexuality as a form of mental illness but continued to consider it a “sexual orientation disturbance.”
  • By the late 1960s, cities across the country held gay rights demonstrations to oppose discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

• Theatre and Novels

  • Central elements of Beat culture included the experimentation with drugs, alternative forms of sexuality, interest in Eastern religion (such as Buddhism), rejection of materialism, and idealizing exuberant means of expression and being.
  • Both Ginsberg's Howl and Burroughs' Naked Lunch contain explicit homosexuality, sexual content, and drug use.
  • It was influenced by, and in turn influenced, the sexual revolution, issues around censorship, the demystification of cannabis and other drugs, the musical evolution of rock and roll, the spread of ecological consciousness, and opposition to the military-industrial machine civilization.
  • "Hair" is often said to be a product of the hippie counterculture and sexual revolution of the 1960s.

• The Beats

  • Both Ginsberg's Howl and Burroughs' Naked Lunch contained explicit homosexuality, sexual content, and drug use.
  • Spiritual liberation, sexual revolution or liberation (i.e., gay liberation, which somewhat catalyzed women's liberation and black liberation);

• Counterculture

  • As the 1960s progressed, widespread tensions developed in American society that tended to flow along generational lines regarding the war in Vietnam, race relations, sexual mores, women's rights, traditional modes of authority, and a materialist interpretation of the American Dream.
  • Unconventional appearance, music, drugs, communitarian experiments, and sexual liberation were hallmarks of the sixties counterculture, most of whose members were white, middle-class, young Americans.
  • First, the most popular of the movement's political goals—civil rights, civil liberties, gender equality, environmentalism, and the end of the Vietnam War—had made significant gains, and its most popular social attributes—particularly a "live-and-let-live" mentality in personal lifestyles (i.e., the "sexual revolution")—were largely co-opted by mainstream society.

• Demographic Shifts

  • Vestigial changes from the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and 1970s were apparent throughout the 1990s.
  • More casual, "laid-back" attitudes toward dress, language, and sexual freedom were among these left-over changes.
  • Third wave feminism gained momentum in the 90s, with violence against women taking center stage, more women taking on positions of leadership, and the rise of queer theory initiating important discussions about gender and sexuality.
  • The conservative campaign against sexual "promiscuity" received unexpected support due to the discovery of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in the 1980s.
  • By pointing out major social problems such as AIDS, depression, and sexuality, Coupland helped define an entire generation.

• The Family Economy: Women and Children

  • During the Industrial Revolution, the economic and social roles of woman shifted and became largely focused on the domestic sphere.
  • The Industrial Revolution, starting in the nineteenth century and extending into the twentieth, is seen as the force that changed the family economic unit and is credited with the creation of the "modern family."
  • Culturally originating in Europe and North America, the distinct ideology emerged during the Industrial Revolution, although the basic idea of gendered separation of spheres is much older.
  • The shift during the Industrial Revolution from family as producer to family as consumer, from work being done together in the same spaces to work being done in centralized factories and businesses, contributed to this ideology.
  • Strong support for the separation of spheres came from anti-suffragists who relied on the notion of inherent sexual differences to argue that women were unfit for political participation.

• Mass Marketing, Advertising, and Consumer Culture

  • In fact, the first American advertising to use a "sexual" sell was created by a woman for a soap product.
  • During the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century, capitalist development became primarily focused on the capital goods sector and industrial infrastructure (e.g., mining, steel, oil, and transportation networks).
  • While previously the norm had been the scarcity of resources, the Industrial Revolution created an unusual economic situation.

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • The bill also required states to establish registries for sexual offenders by September 1997.
  • Instead of lifting the longstanding ban, the armed forces would adopt a policy of “don’t ask, don’t tell”: those on active duty would not be asked their sexual orientation and, if they were gay, they were not to discuss their sexuality openly or they would be dismissed from military service.
  • This compromise satisfied neither conservatives seeking the exclusion of gays nor the gay community, which argued that homosexuals, like heterosexuals, should be able to live without fear of retribution because of their sexuality.
  • McVeigh hoped that his actions would spark a revolution against government control.

• Women and the Law

  • Married women’s status as femes covert did not change as a result of the American Revolution, and wives remained economically dependent on their husbands.
  • Thus, because the sexual abuser was her master, the murder was not justified on the claim of self-defense.