Liberated from Corsets: The Sexual Revolution between the World Wars

Sexual revolutions for women in Europe gained them rights that were previously rejected to them by a dominant male aristocracy. The greatest sexual revolution occurred between the wars resulting in the largest societal changes to affect women. The outcome of the sexual revolutions on society that women enjoy today resulted from the initial stages of women's movements that unofficially took off between the world wars. Throughout the periods, the fight for women to acquire equality on several levels came in three major waves of women's movements: before the Great War, that arose from social discontent searching for freedom and equality to that of men; between the world wars, that was the beginning of numerous movements to allow her freedoms; and the 60's and 70's, that released all previous restrictions imposed on women's body, status and intellect. …