3a: Class and social values | 2 The emergence of the 'liberal society', 1951-79
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- The emergence of a liberal society, 1951-79
- Decline of deference
- The 'satire boom'
- 1960: 'beyond the fringe' stage show - Peter Cook/Dudley Moor/Johnathan Miller/Alan Bennett - ridiculed establishment/ government/ Army/ upper classes
- 'The Aftermyth of the War' sketch ridiculed war effort
- 'That Was the Week that Was' with David Frost
- 1960: 'beyond the fringe' stage show - Peter Cook/Dudley Moor/Johnathan Miller/Alan Bennett - ridiculed establishment/ government/ Army/ upper classes
- 'British New Wave'
- Writers/ filmmakers wrote about class - novels about working class coming to terms with new prosperity
- Saturday Night Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (1958) (film in 1960 with Albert Finney)- product of affluence
- Sex scandals
- Profumo Scandal (1963) - led to deference/satire
- Minister of War (John Profumo), callgirl (Christine Keeler) and soviet attache (Yevgeny Ivanov) - never proved
- Covered widely in the press - watershed of popular deference - no such 'paragons of virtue'
- Public shocked at denial and admission - resigned 3/63 - factor leading to defeat of 1964?
- Sex parties at Cliveden, Astor family home
- Private Eye magazine
- Profumo Scandal (1963) - led to deference/satire
- Prosperity - traditional ideas towards community/ social class/ mobility changed
- End of rationing (1954)
- Relaxation of consumer credit
- The 'satire boom'
- The liberal society
- 1950s attitudes towards sex
- State regulation accepted
- Little sex education/ discussion
- False stereotype of being sexually reserved/repressed
- Venereal disease, WW2 prostitution, pre-marital sex, demand for sexual advice books (Love Without Fear by Eusrace Chesser, 1941)
- Disparity between stereotypes/ reality - steady change in sexual behaviour, revolution in terms of openness
- 1960s attitudes towards sex
- Misleading image of decadence/ sexual exploration
- Michael Schofield's The Sexual Behaviour of Young People (1965)/ Geoffrey Gorer's studies (1970) - similar 50s acceptance to pre-marital sex/ homosexuality/ infidelity
- Music/dance/clothing - Biba/ nightlight/ LSD/ 'Hair'/'Oh Calcutta' musicals/ Rolling Stones' narcotics arrests - generation gap
- Lady Chatterley trial (1960)
- The media
- New openness caused by newspapers' dissemination of sexual ideas
- Mass consumerism - advertisements 'sex sells'/ sex scandals/ discussion
- Sexual revolution - homosexuality/ abortion laws
- 1950s attitudes towards sex
- Sexuality and the state
- The Sexual Offences Act, 1967
- c. Homosexual Law Reform Society (HLRS) supported by Attlee/ Isiah Berlin/ A.J.P. Taylor to implement Wolfenden
- passed by Labour MP Leo Abse's private bill - criminalising private life was 'uncivilised'
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- 1957 Wolfenden Report from pressure from moral groups - 'decline in morality'/weakening of family - tougher on 'immoral' prostitution/ more lax on homosexuality
- The Sexual Offences Act, 1967
- Affluence, leisure time, consumer choice --> rising living standards/spending power/ attitudes towards class/deference/authority/ propreity/ morality (homosexuality/sexuality/marriage/abortion) through reform laws.
- Decline of deference
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