AMCULT 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Premarital Sex, Political Repression, Mccarthyism
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1: political repression, mccarthyism, which hunts, rosenberg execution, sexual contradictions (masturbation causes insanity, premarital sex is immoral, of women married by 19, only whores have sex, women should be virgins until marriage) Yet: playboy began in 1950, bikini was invented, blond bombshells as sex symbols. After ww1: women sent to college in record numbers to get their mrs. Expected to learn to be a proper wife: cultured but stays at home, creative but uses that form the home and children. Liberal arts: art, literature, religion, philosophy sociocultural danger of deep thought. Women joining the beat scene: all college educated, education made them want more than a life as a wife and a mother, wanted to rebel against a sterile/oppressive domestic environment. Beat men respond: boys" club male writers, influenced by male writers, got the attention. Observer status, sexual surrogates, peripheral interest, roles below declining in import: the providers, the muses, the writers (not accepted as equals, the artists.
