9.4 Flashcards
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Women in Postwar Western World
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- women were removed from the workforce to give jobs to veterans
- after the war (horrors), people were willing to return to traditional families, creating an baby boom
- but in the 1950s, it declined because of birth control
2
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Women in the workforce
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- there were more married women in the workforce
- working class women still earned salaries lower than those of men for equal work
- also, women tended to enter traditionally female jobs
3
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Suffrage and search for liberation
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- after WWII, women got the right to vote
- women were acknowledged of their work in WWI
- an liberation movement started in the late 1960s (women were defined by their differences from men and consequently received second class status)
4
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Abstract Expressionism
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- ”action painting”
- Pollock (sprayed paint on the ground)
5
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pop art
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-took images of popular culture and transformed them into works of fine art
6
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Theater of the absurd
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- literature
- it made people ask “what is happening now” instead of “what is going to happen next”
- it came from when after WWII, there was a time of meaningless
- there was also an existentialist in this
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existentialism
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- came from desperation and breakdown of traditional values of WWII
- people saw that God wasn’t real and that human s are alone
- since the world is without meaning, humans have only one source of hope- themselves
- human beings determine what they will be (“man is nothing else but what he makes of himself” ).
- existentialism has an element of the involvement in life
- jean Paul sartre
8
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Jean Paul Sartre
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-wrote about existentialism
9
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Attempt to Revive Religion
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- existentialism AND the attempt to revive religion was an response to the meaningless of the world
- pope john XXIII
10
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Pope john XXIII
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- summoned first ecumenical council of the catholic church (Vatican II)
- attempted to revive catholicism
11
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Vatican II
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- liberalized an number of church practices (latin masses and new avenues of communication with other christian faiths)
- an attempt to revive catholicism by pope john XXIII
12
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Popular Culture
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- mass consumer society is connected to popular culture (people makes stuff that people consume as popular culture)
- now industries of leisure have emerged (citizens are sold entertainment, recreation, pleasure that appear as commodities that differ from the goods at the drugstore only in the way they are used)
- the US was an influential force and they tried to americanize the world
- motion pictures
- people bought more television sets. americans unloaded their products on europe at low prices (americanization
- also music. started in US and spread and came back to inspire american artists (rock-and-roll)
- elvis presley
13
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A revolt in Sexual norms
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- sweden took the lead in tn sexual revolution(sex education and decriminalization of homosexuality)
- birth control pill (freedom)
- sexualy explicitmoves, plays etc… (break ground in hidden subjects)
- break down of traditional family (divorce rates go up)
- premarital and extramarital sexual experiences rose
14
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Permissive society
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- new society of postwar europe
- sweden took the lead in tn sexual revolution(sex education and decriminalization of homosexuality)
- birth control pill (freedom)
- sexualy explicitmoves, plays etc… (break ground in hidden subjects)
- break down of traditional family (divorce rates go up)
- premarital and extramarital sexual experiences rose
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Youth Protest
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- attitudes about sex and drug culture that questioned authority and fostered rebellion
- inspired by second vietnam war
