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Third wave feminism.
Rise of “girl power” and sex positivity. Eg. The Spice Girls and girls magazines including sex tips and body empowerment for women.
This supposed turning point for women at the time was widely received by men and society as an opportunity to sexualise and objectify female bodies.
For black women this manifested itself in hip hop culture and the ultimate pornification of the female body within its work of the time.
For white women, unhealthy and unrealistic body ideals were heavily promoted such as Kate Moss and other pale and underweight women.
“Take your daughter to work day” was also a distasteful trend that circled in 1993, where men tried to encourage girls to aim high in terms of their future careers. This resulted in the significant rise of sexual assault of 12/13 year old girls.

Summer Begins: Dave as an example of everyday sexism through his comments on sex and women.
“kitchen for Gina”
Sherry and Gina going out as a group of woman and revealing sex positivity with their outfits etc

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-delaying marriage and children liberated women sexually, and also gave them increased economic power and paved their male-dominated careers.
-women were no longer held back in pursuing higher education - equal education promise of Title IX was coming to fruition.
-Title IX was a civil rights law that protects people from discrimination based on sex in educational programs
-women began assuming independence and identities outside of the home.
-there was a rise  of female pioneers in diverse fields. E.g sally ride was the first female astronaut to go into space.
There were so many firsts for women in advance to work, entertainment, politics and culture in years to come.

-however, by the end of the decade, the 90’s didn’t advance life for women and girls much at all; but rather became the decade marked by a shocking accelerating effort to subordinate them.

-many misogynistic stereotypes we know today came from society reducing women as soon as they gained any social powers.

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- 1989 many students were committed to Tories, apparently the urge was no longer to change the world, but rather to prosper in it.
- New adolescent revolution centred on the flourishing  economics
- New kind of patriotismo amongs the youngest
- Cool Britannia movement 1994-1997
-From Manchester, new punk groups moved to London. Computers were now used to mix the tracks.
-New clubs scene was born in London
-the Beatles nostalgia 60s-70s
-Oasis and Blur Battle of Britpop, David Bowie uaaaaaaauuuu

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Dates in office

1979 to 1990

As the first female prime minister Margret Thatcher faced no shortage of controversy. Her hard-line policy's saw a rise in unemployment at the start of her time in office. She pushed the ideology of 'self-help' in that the government would give people the tools they needed to better their own lives rather than just relying on the government. This meant that in her first term as prime minister unemployment doubled as funding for healthcare, schools and government housing was cut as well. In foreign affairs, the Falklands War illuminated her most significant international relationship, with  Ronald Reagan, president of the United States (1981–89). Thatcher and Reagan, who together made the 1980s the decade of conservatism, shared a vision of the world in which the Soviet Union was an evil enemy deserving of no compromise, and their partnership ensured that the Cold War continued in all its frigidity until the rise to power of the reform-minded Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.  The implementation of a poll tax in 1989 produced outbreaks of street violence and alarmed the Conservative rank-and-file, who feared that Thatcher could not lead the party to a fourth consecutive term. Spurred by public disapproval of the poll tax and Thatcher’s increasingly strident tone, Conservative members of Parliament moved against her in November 1990.

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Dates in office

1990 to 1997

John Major was a conservative prime minister who oversaw the country's economic growth. He was also responsible for the cease fire of the IRA in Ireland and deescalating the violence they caused. He received the highest number of popular votes in conservative history even though he only possessed a small majority. Through his time as prime minister he survived an assassination attempt on his life after the IRA mortar bombed number 10. In his terms as prime minister he pushed the importance of unifying the country after his predecessor Margret Thatcher has so violently divided it with the Argentinian conflict and the miner strikes.

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'England was convulsed by a social and political revolution'

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'England was convulsed by a social and political revolution'

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For me the 80s began with the election of Margaret Thatcher on 4 May 1979 and ended with the internal party coup that ousted her as prime minister on 28 November 1990. Let's call them the long 1980s. I was working as a paper boy in 1979, and I have never forgotten the delight of the newsagent when I arrived at his shop early on the morning of 4 May to be told by him, "She's won." He was one of Thatcher's Essex men: entrepreneurial, insurgent and weary of the failed quasi-socialist politics of the post-war decades. He, like many people who voted Conservative for the first time in 1979, was restless for change.

Living in the Essex-Hertfordshire borderlands as I did, and making regular hit-and-run raids on London to visit clubs such as the Wag, the Electric Ballroom, the Cha-Cha under the arches at Charing Cross and the Camden Palace, I found those years of the late 70s and early 80s extraordinarily exciting. England was being convulsed by a social, cultural and political counter-revolution. There was violence on the football terraces and on the inner-city streets.

The forces that drove the punks and new wave bands that followed them were similar to those that motivated the Thatcherite ideologues - a profound desire for consensus-breaking transformation. This was a time of great innovation in pop music, as bands inspired by the can-do attitude of the punks and by the art-school cool of David Bowie began to experiment with synthesisers and computers, new technologies that would change forever the way music was made.

Yet some time in the mid-80s everything became becalmed. The fiercest political battles had been fought and won. The miners were defeated. Free-market fundamentalism was the new orthodoxy. People began to feel richer. The pop music was dismal. The culture became coarser and more reactionary.

As an undergraduate from 1986-89, I was surprised by how many of my fellow students were committed Tories. Apparently the urge was no longer to change the world, even superficially in the old spirit of student idealism and adolescent rebellion, but rather to prosper in it. OK, I was at a university in the south of England, popular with nearly-Sloanes and Oxbridge miss-outs - but something didn't seem quite right.

Then there was yet another cultural shift towards the end of the decade. The rave scene began spilling out of the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester and into wider society, altering the mood, energising a whole new generation, many of whom were high on the freely circulating drug ecstasy.

The summer of 1989, the last summer of the decade, was unusually warm and settled in England. Meanwhile, something was happening in eastern Europe, and it soon became clear that entire political eras were coming to an end, with the sudden and dramatic fall of communist totalitarianism. For one sweet extended period that year it seemed as if everything was changing for the better, that the Cold War was at an end, and that we were living, if not quite at the end of history, then at the beginning of something new and promising.

The feeling of euphoria didn't last; in retrospect, how could it have lasted? But it was an inspiring end to a thrilling decade of convulsion and upheavals.

• Jason Cowley is the author of a memoir about the end of the 1980s, The Last Game: Love, Death and Football, published by Simon & Schuster