How was it for you? : women, sex, love and power in the 1960s
Nicholson, Virginia2020
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The sexual revolution liberated a generation. But men most of all. We tend to think of the 60s as a decade sprinkled with stardust: a time of space travel and utopian dreams, but above all of sexual abandonment. When the pill was introduced on the NHS in 1961 it seemed, for the first time, that women - like men - could try without buying. But this book describes a turbulent power struggle. Here are the voices from the battleground. Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, Beryl who sang with the Beatles, bunny girl Patsy, Christian student Anthea, industrial campaigner Mary, and countercultural Caroline. From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, from mods to rockers, from white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories throw an unsparing spotlight on morals, four-letter words, faith, drugs, race, bomb culture, and sex.
Main title:
How was it for you? : women, sex, love and power in the 1960s / Virginia Nicholson.
Author:
Nicholson, Virginia, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2020.
Collation:
xv, 493 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: UK: Viking, 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241975183 (pbk)
Dewey class:
305.4209046305.42305.42 NIC305.420904
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2922505
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