Irving Klaw: Analyzing The Sexual Revolution

Unlike sex, the history of sexuality is dependant upon society and limited by its language in order to be defined and understood.

In the essay entitled, Sex and Youth in the Jazz Age, historian Paula S. Fass examines the social behaviors of youths in the 1920s and explains how those behaviors transformed gender and relationship roles between men and women. Fass believed that youths of the 1920s created certain social behaviors and redefined them as being socially acceptable. These behaviors included dating, smoking, drinking, and even provocative fashions. In the primary source entitled, “Young Women Petting, 1930,” an important point, the approval or disapproval of social behaviors- smoking, drinking, and especially petting, was illustrated within the excerpt that was also examined throughout the essay.

Beginning in the mid eighteenth century, much of Europe underwent a sustained series of changes in the way goods are produced known as the industrial revolution. During this movement, technological advancements greatly impacted the coal, heavy metals and textile industries as machines replaced hands as the main mechanism of operation. Consequently, a worker’s level of skill soon lost value and factories that demanded individuals performing menial tasks at a fast rate dotted the landscape. Females became more prominent in the workplace, especially because their smaller hands were better suited for textile factories and their smaller bodies allowed for easier movement in coalmines. Middle class males viewed female workers as a threat to morality, family structure and gender roles while the women saw their employment as a necessary means to provide for themselves and their families. This difference can best be explained by a cultural worldview that increasingly emphasized science and inherent differences between the two sexes. Furthermore, the firsthand accounts depicted by the females stand as the most reliable illustrations of work in the nineteenth century because they take into account the needs of the working class.

I chose to evaluate MacOdrum Library’s History of Sexuality research guide for my digital humanities project is. MacOdrum’s primary purpose appears to be to help serve the students of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with their research. I have decided to focus my evaluation on “Finding and Using Primary Sources” tab and the “Websites” tab, because I find them the most interesting and also the most useful sections for everyday people who might visit.

The change in society’s views on sexuality during the 1960s created a moral shift in which people and cultural values shifted away from many traditional biblical ethics. With inspiration from African American and their movements in civil rights, many young women sought to achieve gender equality with males despite the society’s cookie-cutter view of women as housewives in the 1950s. In 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique as an outlash against the view of the traditional American housewife. Friedan took inspiration from Holocaust survivor Bruno Bettelheim’s analysis of the psychological abuse imposed by the Germans on their prisoners and compared the average suburban home to “comfortable concentration camps” (Wolfe). Alan

The films North by Northwest (1959) and Double Indemnity (1944), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and Billy Wilder both have significant strides within the history of film, and both films made different in artistic innovation. North by Northwest was a late film of the post war era, and Double Indemnity was an early film of film noir. The objective of this paper is to compare and contrast both films within the context of sexual content, comedy, and suspense.

The sexual revolution of the 1960's was a time of great importance to modern America. The changes that occurred across America changed our country as a whole, its influence spread from LA to New York to the 'Heartland of America', Lawrence Kansas. This revolution occurred at a critical point in world history as well. A new type of society formed with soldiers returning from WWII and people began to incorporate themselves with those who matched their identity and not just those geographically near them. People were frustrated and they wanted their voice to be heard, and now they had a group of citizens who would back them up and help them in their revolution. American ideals changed drastically in the twenty years that followed World War two

In today’s society, the term and act of bargaining is defined as the negotiation of the terms and conditions of a transaction between two or more distinct parties. Chapter 13 takes the fundamental ideas and theories of bargaining and jumps into an in depth discussion focused on how each person in a particular bargaining situation is represented. Hirshman and Larson examine an individual’s life and classify the various sexual bargains that said individual might experience at some point in their life and classify them into five subsections. During this discussion, the title of the book itself, Hard Bargains, is used heavily to describe these

According to Our Sexuality by Crooks and Baur there are two forms of celibacy “In complete celibacy a person neither masturbates nor has sexual contact with another person. In partial celibacy an individual masturbates but does not have interpersonal sexual contact” (Crooks/Baur,2014, 226). There are so many reasons as to why some people choose to be celibate. Religion is a big reason. In most religions they teach that masturbating and sex before marriage is a sin. The people who are celibate because of religion do it because they agree with what they are being taught but some are scared into following. Another reason people decide to be celibate is because they are waiting for marriage, whether it’s for religion or morals. They want to wait until the wedding night.

A Historical Critique of Homosexual Exclusions from the Armed Forces using the concepts of Michel Foucault

In today’s society things are being expressed and experienced at younger ages, than ever before in our time. Children and teenagers are discovering their sexuality at very early ages. Sexuality is the discovering of who you are and what makes you different from everybody else.

However Molly Haskell In her development of “buddy movie” the homosexual eroticism of the main male figures are able to present the story-line with no interruption. Normally the woman shown operates within two sectors, the first one is as a sexual object of the other actors and the second one is as a sexual object for the target audience.

For years, many scholars have provided many discussions over the topic of gender and sexuality. However, one needs to ask themselves: Are these two topics, gender and sexuality, useful as a category for historical analysis? The articles written by both Joan W. Scott and Afsaneh Najmabadi, answer such a question. By critically examining and assessing their two article, can the usefulness of gender and sexuality as a category for historical analysis be proven.

Married Love was an unprecedented book, which inadvertently redefined female sexuality. Often regarded as the precursor of sex-manuals, Married Love launched Stopes’ enormously successful career as a writer. Published in 1918, Married Love reviewed the intertwining relationship of marriage, sex and contraception, which in Stopes’ view were the fundamental components of a fulfilling and rewarding marriage. Like all discourse, Married Love is heavily embedded within a distinct historical and cultural context. Darwinian theory and the development of eugenics had a phenomenal impact on Stopes. Recognising the equal sexual desire of women would make Married Love greatly influential in the shaping of modern perceptions into female sexuality.

Sex has been a hot topic of debate since the beginning of time. Many believe it is a wrong and in most religions they believe it is sinful to have premarital sex. Many times people use other people as means for pleasure. Kant says that this is wrong to do. I believe that you can use people for sexual pleasure and not be required to love or care for them.