Friday, 9 May 2014

Cultural moment of the 60's

This post I would like to dedicate to one of the cultural moment in 60's - Second-wave feminism.

Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity that first began in the early 1960's in the United States, and eventually spread throughout the Western world. In the United States the movement lasted through the early 1980s. The second wave of feminism in North America came as a late reaction against the new domesticity of women after World War II: the late 1940's post-war boom, which was the time characterized by an unexampled economic growth, then a baby boom and the ideal of companionate marriages.  I found one video on YouTube, which is breathly explaining what was this movement about: 
At this time, women really wanted to be in in depended, free and work where they like. They didn't want to stay at home and take care of everything there. Some women, like Janis Joplin, made female part be very jealous, because some of them wanted to sing or become an actress. 

Janis Joplin was born in January 1943 in Port Arthur, Texas, U.S.She was an American singer-writer who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psicodelic-acid rock band Big Brother and later as a solo artist with her own backing groups, The Kozmic Blues Band. She was one of the more popular acts at the  Monterey Pop Festival. Joplin charted five singles and this one of the single: 

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