Week 7: Cultural and Sexual Revolution: Downturn and Detente

Question 1

rising employment, higher wages and lower food prices in the West contributed to _____ amounts of disposable income

Answer 1

higher levels of disposable income, contributed to growth in consumer culture.

Question 2

Why was there less disposable income for Eastern European citizens/

Answer 2

because government controlled goods and services, there was also a SCARCITY of goods for consumers.

Question 3

Describe the cultural revolution

Answer 3

Media is now powerful. Different music, more magazines, different fashions.

Question 4

Who introduced the mini skirt?

Answer 4

Mary Quant.

Question 5

What was bone music?

Answer 5

bootleg records from the west that were pressed onto discarded xrays that societ teenagers listened to.

Question 6

What was the sexual revolution?

Answer 6

more access to contraception in the west, higher divorce rates. PATRIARCHY BEGINS TO ERODE

Question 7

Who wrote Lady Chatterley’s lover?

Answer 7

D. H lawrence

Question 8

T/F: Western nations began to be more progressive towards sexual orientation

Answer 8

True. Department of Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution recommended legalizing private sex between same sex adults