sexual revolution
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As a model and actress from the 1950s, she became an emblem of modern femininity and the sexual revolution before later taking up the cause of animal rights.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
People like Andrea Dworkin, they came of age before the sexual revolution and before feminism.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
But in recent decades, with the integration and rising power of Catholics in America, along with the sexual revolution, the divisions became more internal.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
This is not unlike other moral panics that have preceded this one—reefer madness in the 1930s, moral panics about sexuality during the sexual revolution.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2020
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
