Women's Studies 2163A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter coursebook: Acquaintance Rape, Taxi Dancer, Premarital Sex

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2163A/B
• Professor: Samantha Brennan

Document Summary

Introduction: what are we waiting for? by littauer. Bad girls: young women, sex and rebellion before the 1960s. In 1941 the us declared war on germany and japan. In same year a 17 year old girl ran away again. A woman named theresa became sexually involved with a married man while married and the state tried to charge her. She wanted to know on what grounds the state had permission to regulate the private lives of its citizens. Telling many accounts of girls having sex outside the bounds of marriage. Sexual desire a driving force in these girls lives. People at time described the change in sexual culture as an addiction to promiscuity or morals revolt or sex revolution . Beginning in the late nineteenth century, structural changes in american society - especially urbanization - presented opportunities for many young women to pursue sexual relationships outside of heterosexual marriage - p2.