Amanda H. Littauer's Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the PDF

By Amanda H. Littauer

ISBN-10: 1469623781

ISBN-13: 9781469623788

during this leading edge and revealing examine of midcentury American intercourse and tradition, Amanda Littauer strains the origins of the "sexual revolution" of the Sixties. She argues that sexual liberation used to be even more than a response to Nineteen Fifties repression since it principally concerned the mainstreaming of a counterculture already at the upward push between women and younger women many years prior. From international warfare II–era "victory ladies" to teenager lesbians within the Nineteen Forties and Nineteen Fifties, those nonconforming girls and women navigated and resisted extreme social and interpersonal pressures to slot latest mores, utilizing the upheavals of the period to pursue new sexual freedoms.

Building on a brand new new release of study on postwar society, Littauer tells the historical past of numerous younger women who stood on the middle of significant cultural switch and helped remodel a society certain by means of conservative sexual morality into another open to individualism, plurality, and enjoyment in sleek sexual life.

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