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AMERICAN SEXUAL CULTURE:
WOMEN’S LIBERATION, ROCK MUSIC,
AND EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY, 1968-1976
by
Rebecca Sheehan
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(HISTORY)
May 2010
Copyright 2010 Rebecca Sheehan
Object Description
| Title | American sexual culture: women's liberation, rock music, and evangelical Christianity, 1968-1976 |
| Author | Sheehan, Rebecca |
| Author email | sheehan@usc.edu; rebeccajsheehan@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | History |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2009-12-16 |
| Date submitted | 2010 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 12 Feb. 2012. |
| Date published | 2012-02-12 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Sánchez, George |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Kelley, Robin D. G. Winston, Diane |
| Abstract | This dissertation argues that in the years between 1968 and 1976 groups within the women’s liberation movement, rock music culture, and evangelical religion transformed American sexual culture and forged a new sexual order. An examination of these groups together demonstrates their similarities and differences and offers insight into the paradoxes of sexual liberalization. White radical feminists sought to achieve women’s liberation through deconstructing patriarchal power and rejecting biologically determined roles. Rock music groupies sought sexual freedom through rejecting passive femininity. Glam rockers performed liberation through androgynous and bisexual personas in order to sell records. Evangelical women sought freedom through sexual pleasure and through submitting to the existing sex role system. All focused on sex roles and used arguments about freedom, and they began to revolutionize sexual norms by asserting women’s right to sexual pleasure; by pushing the boundaries of gender roles to include new masculine and feminine styles; and by promoting greater tolerance for homosexuality. Yet the newly permissive culture challenged biblical orthodoxy on sex roles and incited an evangelical counterrevolution designed to reassert heterosexual marriage and male dominance within the home. These competing revolutions compromised and fed sexual liberalization and created a new and ambiguous sexual order. The new sexual order combined the language of gendered liberation with permissive sexuality and biblical morality. It affirmed active female sexuality and privileged heterosexual marriage. |
| Keyword | sexuality 1970s; Grove Press; Robin Morgan; Barney Rosset; Evergreen Review; white radical feminism; sexism in the New Left; culture; biology; Germaine Greer; The Female Eunuch; Sexual Politics; Kate Millett; Norman Mailer; Prisoner of Sex; groupies; rock music culture; glam rock; androgyny; David Bowie; Alice Cooper; Marabel Morgan; The Total Woman; evangelical Christianity; Billy Graham; Jesus movement |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1968/1976 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m2847 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Sheehan, Rebecca |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Sheehan-3427 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Sheehan-3427.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | AMERICAN SEXUAL CULTURE: WOMEN’S LIBERATION, ROCK MUSIC, AND EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY, 1968-1976 by Rebecca Sheehan A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (HISTORY) May 2010 Copyright 2010 Rebecca Sheehan |
