"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s..."The sexual revolution liberated a generation.
No one else makes makes history this fun\' Amanda Foreman\'Intimate, immersive, often moving, How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade\' David Kynaston.
Women would never be the same again.\'One of the great social historians of our time.
For out of the swamp of gropers and groupies, a movement was emerging, and discovering a new cause: equality.
The 1960s: this was where it all began.
It\'s about peace, love, psychedelia and strange pleasures, but it is also about misogyny, violation and discrimination - half a century before feminism rebranded.
From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, from mods to rockers, from white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories throw an unsparing spotlight on morals, four-letter words, faith, drugs, race, bomb culture and sex.
This is a moving, shocking book about tearing up the world and starting again.
Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, Beryl who sang with the Beatles, bunny girl Patsy, Christian student Anthea, industrial campaigner Mary and countercultural Caroline. all these willing girls..."But this book - by \'one of the great social historians of our time\' - describes a turbulent power struggle.
Here are the voices from the battleground.
When the pill was introduced on the NHS in 1961 it seemed, for the first time, that women - like men - could try without buying."It was paradise for men...
But men most of all.
We tend to think of the 60s as a decade sprinkled with stardust: a time of space travel and utopian dreams, but above all of sexual abandonment. "A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s..."The sexual revolution liberated a generation
