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Gender, Agency, and Sex: Postwar European Youth and the Generation Gap

David Niget

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The postwar years represented a return to the moral order, reinforced by the context of the Cold War. This order gradually began to crack and ultimately came apart during the 1960s as a result of young people’s demand for “sexual liberation.” The youth policies of the time tended to establish a biopolitics of sexuality, as the young demonstrated a desire for autonomy that helped shape a global politics with sexual implications: the sexual revolution. Sexuality thus became a generational tool in the fight for youth rights, but gender norms remained largely unchanged. Nevertheless, during this time, alternative sexual cultures—feminist, gay, and lesbian—emerged, including among the working classes.
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hal-04306218 , version 1 (24-11-2023)

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David Niget. Gender, Agency, and Sex: Postwar European Youth and the Generation Gap. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Youth Culture, Oxford University Press, pp.169-190, 2023, 978-0-19-092075-3. ⟨10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190920753.013.14⟩. ⟨hal-04306218⟩
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