sexual revolution
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In 2019, he wrote a lengthy letter about sexual abuse, linking some of the church’s problems to the 1960s sexual revolution, a diagnosis that conflicted with Francis’s own theories about the root causes.
From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2023
People like Andrea Dworkin, they came of age before the sexual revolution and before feminism.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2022
But “The Shattering,” which intertwines the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the sexual revolution, is no saccharine account.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2021
The show was an indictment of the soul-crushing nature of commercialization set in the Eisenhower years, before the counterculture and the sexual revolution.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 12, 2019
She came of age long before the sexual revolution, which meant she had a particular experience of—and a particular fury about—what women had been routinely expected to tolerate.
From Slate • Dec. 4, 2018
