<![CDATA[Jezebel: sexual revolution]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: sexual revolution]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/sexualrevolution http://jezebel.com/tag/sexualrevolution <![CDATA[Martin Amis: My Book On Victims Of The Sexual Revolution Is Totally Feminist]]> Martin Amis says he's written "a very feminist book" based on his sister, who was "pathologically promiscuous" and "one of the most spectacular victims of the [sexual] revolution." He adds, "It would have needed the Taliban to protect her." [Guardian]

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<![CDATA['69: How The Sexual Revolution Informed Feminism, Improved Orgasms]]> Last night, the History Channel premiered a documentary, Sex in '69, about the sexual revolution in America. In it, radical feminists of that era reflect on how feminism was shaped by the revolution, and vice versa.



My favorite part about how women were discovering how to pleasure themselves is this lady's face when she's shown a vibrating dildo.


The documentary also talks about the feminist protest of the 1969 Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City, a pivotal moment in the women's movement. Usually, for retrospectives on feminism, we hear a lot from scholarly talking heads who have not only studied and analyzed the movement, but were also part of it. But Sex in '69 featured a lesser-examined — but equally illuminating — viewpoint: that of a 1969 Miss America contestant. In this clip, Susan Anton, Miss California 1969, gives her take on how the protest affected her. Interestingly, 40 years later, she is grateful for women's liberation, and thinks we still have a long way to go.

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<![CDATA["The Sexual Revolution Was Central To Women's Liberation"]]> Part 2 of VH1's documentary mini-series Sex: The Revolution aired last night, and a portion of it focused on the sexual revolution's influence on feminism in the 1970s and vice versa. The doc combines archival footage of interviews, TV shows, and protest rallies and new interviews with heavyweights like Gloria Steinem, Helen Gurley Brown, Ariel Levy, Erica Jong, and Susan Brownmiller. Nearly 40 years later, Steinem is still sticking to her guns that the sexual revolution was a disservice to women because it was a movement for men to make women more sexually available to them. (How can she not realize by now that we all have natural sexual desires?) Ariel Levy, author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, offered a different (and perhaps younger?) take on the sexual revolution, asserting that it was important for feminism, because gaining equality in sexual satisfaction was a key element in the women's movement. Still, it was nice to see both sides of the argument presented. Clip above.

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