How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s - Virginia Nicholson - Books - Penguin Books Ltd - 9780241975183 - March 5, 2020
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Virginia Nicholson
How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s

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A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s... The sexual revolution liberated a generation. But men most of all. We tend to think of the 60s as a decade sprinkled with stardust: a time of space travel and utopian dreams, but above all of sexual abandonment. When the pill was introduced on the NHS in 1961 it seemed, for the first time, that women - like men - could try without buying. It was paradise for men... all these willing girls... But this book - by 'one of the great social historians of our time' - describes a turbulent power struggle. Here are the voices from the battleground. Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, Beryl who sang with the Beatles, bunny girl Patsy, Christian student Anthea, industrial campaigner Mary and countercultural Caroline. From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, from mods to rockers, from white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories throw an unsparing spotlight on morals, four-letter words, faith, drugs, race, bomb culture and sex. This is a moving, shocking book about tearing up the world and starting again. It's about peace, love, psychedelia and strange pleasures, but it is also about misogyny, violation and discrimination - half a century before feminism rebranded. For out of the swamp of gropers and groupies, a movement was emerging, and discovering a new cause: equality. The 1960s: this was where it all began. Women would never be the same again.

512 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 5, 2020
ISBN13 9780241975183
Publishers Penguin Books Ltd
Pages 512
Dimensions 198 × 130 × 33 mm   ·   430 g
Language English  

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