w one thing for sure, she didn’t want to end up like her mom. In this respect, the media played a huge role in the lives of Douglas as well as millions of other people. During the war, women were told that their country needs them to work, and they did. And they saw that they enjoyed working out of the house. However, when the war ended, the male soldiers returning home needed their jobs back, and the women were fired. Again, the media played a role in assisting in this retransformation of women going back to being housewives (or backlash, as Douglas calls it). The media portrayed women who worked, especially with kids, were sick and were bad mothers. To cope with this, women drank, tool medicine, some got jobs, others went to college. It seems that the media followed the baby boom generation through their lives, to this day, due to the sheer number of them. As such, during the puberty stages the baby boomers were exposed to magazines and movies that became obsessed with sex. This basically marked the start of the Sexual Revolution. Women were always told that sex before marriage is completely wrong, and these girls were pushed away from their sexuality. (this was the time of the advent of the pill as well). They were told of all the dangers, and such which scared these youngsters. However, magazines and movies began to portray a different image during the Sexual Revolution. This was about the time Helen Brown wrote a book on sexual freedom. Movies helped break the sexual taboo long before television even dared to enter this realm. The advent of the “pregnancy melodrama” also made women feel more in touch with their sexuality. However, it was not only movies that helped break women out of their sexual shells, and thus, the confines of society. Music and the radio also had a huge impact. As Douglas points out, rock n’ roll was meant mostly for the rebellious and sexual young men, and during thi...
