Swinging 60s Flashcards
how many women left the workforce to focus on domestic duties upon marriage?
9 in 10
what was the gender balance in the workplace?
2:1
when was contraception beginning to be commercialised?
early 20th century
How many women resorted to illegal abortions every year?
100,000
what did ‘sexology’ justify?
rape and men’s use of prostitutes on the premise that male sexual urges were natural
when did sex manuals start to be published?
the 1940s
Eustace Chesser?
‘Love Without Fear’ sold 3 million copies by 1964
what was the global stereotype about Britain?
British people were regressed as the matter of sex was a cultural taboo
Wolfenden Report 1957?
stated that homosexuality should not be a crime as private affairs were not the law’s business
family life for women?
Expected that women should marry.
Families grew smaller.
Only 5% of women had more than 5 children in 1940s, 25% in 1900s.
Impact of the war?
More women employed in uniformed services and factories.
Expected to return to domestic sphere.
Couples separated for long periods of time.
Constant prospect of death and many feared their husbands wouldn’t return home.
Make-up of the workforce?
Women constituted 29.6% in 1911.
32.4% in 1961
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D.H. Lawrence)?
Privately circulated until Penguin published it.
Trial- witnesses testified to the artistic quality of the book and denied it was obscene.
2 million copies in first year.
Consequence of Lady Chatterley’s Lover?
authorities couldn’t decide what reading materials were suitable.
outdated attitudes being challenged.
‘The Joy of Sex’?
sold 12 million copies worldwide after publication in 1972
