1. Transforming Private Life I. The Sexual Revolution A. Causes B. Effects II. Women’s Liberation A. Beginnings B. Political Action C. Consciousness D. Gender III. Gay Rights Movement A. Prehistory B. Stonewall C. The Politics of Visibility IV. Impact

2. Kinsey Reports Prof. Alfred Kinsey –Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) –Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)

3. Swinging Singles Hugh Hefner –Playboy (1953) Helen Gurley Brown –Sex and the Single Girl (1962) –Cosmopolitan Magazine (1965)

4. Birth Control Margaret Sanger Comstock Law Griswold v. CT (1965)

5. The Pill Dr. Gregory Pincus Catherine McCormick Dr. John Rock

6. Marriage Dramatic decline in marriage rate People marry later

7. Premarital Sex Increasing numbers of women engage in sex before marriage

8. Living Together Massive increase in number of cohabitating couples

9. Divorce Divorce rate climbs

10. Women’s Lib Rep. Shirley Chisholm Betty Freidan Gloria Steinem

11. Abortion Roe v. Wade (1973)

12. Consciousness Raising

13. Challenging Gender Roles

14. Homosexuality Sin v. Sexuality Repression –Sodomy laws –Liquor licensing –Police harassment –Social stigma– “The Closet” The Fleet’s In! Paul Cadmus, 1934

15. Stonewall Rebellion Rights consciousness Open resistance NYT, June 29, 1969

16. Visibility