The 1970s moment in sexual politics

Massimo Prearo

pp. 137-147

in: Julian Jackson, Anna-Louise Milne, James Williams (eds), May 68, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Abstract

The most recent historiography no longer sees "May 68" as the linear unfolding of events within one single month or year. The upheavals which occurred in the wake of May continued to reverberate well into the middle of the 1970s, and their effects continued to be felt in radical political circles, even if more marginally, until the start of the 1980s. Indeed there are still groups today which look to the legacy of "68 and invoke charismatic figures from that period to support their current revolutionary positions.¹