sexual liberation
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Bardot, who revolutionised 1950s French cinema and became a symbol of sexual liberation, died of cancer aged 91 three days after Christmas.
From BBC • Jan. 7, 2026
PARIS—Legendary French actress Brigitte Bardot, an emblem of women’s emancipation and sexual liberation in the 1950s and 1960s, has died.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
The celebrated Italian filmmaker, Michelangelo Antonioni, had begun filming his Californian classic, Zabriskie Point, there in 1968, against the backdrop of the student protests, the Black Panther movement, drug culture and sexual liberation.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021
Controversially, Shostakovich portrayed Katerina’s murders and sexual liberation as justifiable responses to the awful environment of Tsarist Russia.
From The New Yorker • May 26, 2016
He was openly gay when sexual liberation was still largely the prerogative of heterosexual men in a country where homosexual activity was still a crime.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015
