History 2181A/B Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Victorian Morality, Michel Foucault, Homosexuality
20 Nov 2018
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The study of the history of sex and sexuality did not always exist, it began recently mostly in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Why? the second wave feminism movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The first wave happened at the end of the 19th (cid:272)e(cid:374)tur(cid:455) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)as fo(cid:272)used o(cid:374) (cid:449)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)"s suffrage. Part of this was investigating why women were still suffering from oppression and were still not seen as equal; women in academia thought they must study to understand the reason. So, women started to investigate the history of women -and they found very little. Emergence of the birth control pill (she believes this is the single most important invention for women in the history of the world) Initially the pill was intended for married women because people did not assume unmarried women had sex. The pill ended up being for everyone helped with reproductive rights and freedoms.
