SOCIAL & CULTURAL CONTEXTS IN THE OBSERVER 1960s

  PREP Based on the 3 front pages of The Observer from the 1960s.

Written prep on your blog. Title: SOCIAL & CULTURAL CONTEXTS in THE OBSERVER 1960s

Bullet points of every representation of women - as many as possible, of different kinds:

- presented as an object as she's dressed in lingerie which is clearly and ad in the newspaper                           - beauty standards                                                                                                                                                          - The queen visiting a funeral, looking serious                                                                                                             - woman only displayed for her body- to appeal to husbands and men in general

Bullet points  of every mention of representation of ethnicity (or lack of it)

-'Britain shoots for gold', black power protest at the Olympics                                                                                  -The marriage of black woman and a Caucasian man

Bullet points on social conditions (like divorce)

-The law commission making sure both partners had consent on filing for divorce