SOCI 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lavender Scare, Lesbian Feminism, Queer Nation
Document Summary
The sixties: gay liberation and lesbian feminism. Sexual liberation as part of social revolution. One part of the battle: attacking orthodox psychiatry. The aids crisis and new fields of combat. Further development of submerged networks (e. g. informal health care) Act up, queer nation, and poltical theater. One part of the bottle: attacking orthodox psychiatry. Ssm and abortion are both issues with polarized opinion, used by political right for electoral advantage, and fought in some of same terms (traditional values, scripture, the family ) Ssm won legally and in public opinion; abortion less clear legally and stalemated in public opinion. Lgbtq as symptomatic of more general shifts in character of movement. (versus old social movements like the labor movement) As response to decline of labor radicalism and search for new progressive actors. Modeled after marx on social change and revolutionary movements. Generate class consciousness- awareness by working class of common.
