HIST 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Timothy Leary, Igor Gouzenko, Joni Mitchell
22 Apr 2017
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1 baby boom: born between 1945-1965, large demographic. Had profound interest in the 1960s. (cid:1006) cult of (cid:448)irgi(cid:374)ity; the do(cid:373)i(cid:374)a(cid:374)tly (cid:271)elief held i(cid:374) (cid:1005)9(cid:1008)(cid:1004)/(cid:1009)(cid:1004)s that people should(cid:374)"t e(cid:374)gage i(cid:374) pre- marital sex. 1) fear of getting sexual diseases gone because of vaccines 2) the pill is invented. Catherine hall mccormick helps fund the pill for -180k. Enovid hits the market in the 1960s in the usa. 2 joni mitchell: representative of the fact that young women are engaging in pre-marital sex (cid:271)ut u(cid:374)like usa do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e a(cid:272)(cid:272)ess to pill. Get preg(cid:374)a(cid:374)t fro(cid:373) pre-marital sex in 1961, cant get pill. 5 bikini; speaks to the emerging independence of women and their new found liberty. Invented in the 1940s, but not allowed to wear it until 1960s. 5 mini skirt; invented by a woman named mary quant, shes in london. Models start wearing mini skirts in the 1960s.
