History 2181A/B Lecture 6: History 2181 Lecture 6

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 2181A/B
• Professor: Monda Halpern

Document Summary

Women"s rights, gay rights, & the sexual revolution in the 1960s and 1970s. Addressed oppression of blacks, aboriginals, gays, & women. These groups felt that they needed more attention & better civil rights. The activists, mostly young, white, middle class. Grew up in the 50s, saw the way their parents lived. Rebelled against the middle-class conformed/conservative parent"s generation. Blacks civil right movement = focused on rebelling against the country as a whole. Rejected all badges of the establishment & rebelled against conventional wisdom that the universities were teaching them. Strong student movement = they thought that many courses were irrelevant/outdated, & learnt too much about old white guys, wanted more relevant studies. Rebelled against the 9-5 work structure, oppression/discrimination for the blacks, & the vietnam war. Rebelled against the typical nuclear family (mom/dad/kids), & the rigid gender roles from this family structure. Rebelled against the lives of the mothers: their sacrificial & oppression as submissive housewives.