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1. What was the sexual revolution? Discuss its positive and negative effects.

[Lecture: Week 10: Sexual Revolutions] NB readings below mostly apply to the American context]

NB: You may choose to approach this question from a particular angle, eg. Feminist interpretations of the sexual revolution, i.e. what the sexual revolution meant for women.

Starting point: Angus McLaren, Twentieth Century Sexuality, (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) – high use collection/ online via library catalogue]

Stephen Garton, ‘Sexual Revolutions’, Histories of Sexuality, (Equinox: London, 2006) Online via library catalogue.

David Allyn, Make Love, Not War: An Unfettered History, (Routledge, NY: 2001] – available via Google Books.

Jane Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought 1920-1982, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2001)

Carrie Pizulo, The Battle in Every Man's Bed: Playboy and the Fiery Feminists. Journal of the History of Sexuality, Volume 17, Number 2, May 2008, pp. 259-289 [online via library catalogue]

Jstor/ Google Scholar have interesting links to sociological/ sexological studies of sexual revolution and its effects, eg. on ordinary American lives, you could use some of this material as primary and secondary evidence [note the dates], eg:
Ira E. Robinson, Karl King, Jack O. Balswick, ‘The Premarital Sexual Revolution among College Females, The Family Coordinator, Vol. 21, No. 2, Aging and the Family (Apr., 1972), pp. 189-194

Ira Robinson, Ken Ziss, Bill Ganza, Stuart Katz, ‘Twenty Years of the Sexual Revolution, 1965-1985: An Update’, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 53, No. 1 (Feb., 1991), pp. 216-220

Gerson, W. M., ‘Playboy Magazine: Sophisticated Smut or Social Revolution’, Journal of Popular Culture, 1:3 (1967:Winter) p.218 (note the date, this is also a primary source – ie. written DURING the sexual revolution)

Famous feminist critiques of the sexual revolution include:
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