History of Love: The Century of Change – From WW1 to 9/11

Interintellect founder Anna Gát continues her series A History of Love with an episode focusing on the Short Twentieth Century, from the sinking of the Titanic all the way to 9/11, the century when everything changed.

No area of human life was left unchanged throughout the Short Twentieth Century. The period we started in corsets and horse carriages ended with universal suffrage, internet connection, and a high-tech war overseas.

Throughout this turbulent, whimsical, violent time, we also elevated romantic love as the key reason for marriage, and started multiple sexual revolutions that changed work, democracy, healthcare, art, cities, pregnancy, even the language—forever.

Join us for this wide-ranging conversation!

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To read:

• https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/women-first-world-war-taste-of-freedom
• https://metro.co.uk/2017/07/05/historical-sex-the-roaring-twenties-flappers-sex-manuals-and-gay-liberation-6701001/
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-significant-neglected-role-of-russian-women-in-world-war-ii/2017/08/04/534e0598-67f2-11e7-9928-22d00a47778f_story.html
• https://www.npr.org/2008/08/08/93301189/remembering-hollywoods-hays-code-40-years-on?t=1651676027630
• https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/tupperware-work/
• https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/health/04pill.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/style/new-womans-survival-catalog.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/31/as-a-1990s-teenager-the-world-gave-us-girl-power-and-pornification

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