87-97 Society

Question 1

Issues on homosexuality

Answer 1

-outrage! threatened to out gay clergy and MPs
-stonewall challenged the unequal age of consent and bans on gays in the armed forces, didnt succeed until 2000
-reduction in age of consent for gay men 21 to 18 in 1994

Question 2

Sex and the family

Answer 2

-divorce rates hit record highs in the 1990s
-% of babies born to unmarried parents 12% to 30%
-child support agency set up 1993 to help single parents

Question 3

Issues for the monarchy

Answer 3

-3/4 queens childrens marriages broke down
-debate about public financing of Windsor after 1992 fire
-queen paid tax on private income, reduced civil list
-death of diana 1997, queen accused of not caring

Question 4

Anti establishment culture in the arts

Answer 4

-YBA led by hirst, lucas and emin challenged ideas on what art was
-sensation exhibition 1997, collection of charles saatchis YBA work

Question 5

Youth culture

Answer 5

-acid house dance music arrived from USA late 80s
-1988/9 second summers of love with raves and parties
-criminal justice and public order act 1994 allowed police to break up raves

Question 6

Road development protests

Answer 6

-started at twyford down m3 extension in 1992
-spread to newbury bypass and m11 link road
-brought together all sorts of people

Question 7

Feminism in the media

Answer 7

-female riot grrl bands like bikini kill and huggy bear
-girl power became mainstream, spice girls emerged
-powerful female characters on tv like buffy the vampire slayer
-ladettes emerged eg ulrika jonsson and zoe ball

Question 8

New womens leadership roles

Answer 8

-1992 first female speaker in HOC betty boothroyd
-1992 first female mi5 leader stella rimmington
-first ordination of women as priests in CofE 1994

Question 9

Marital rape

Answer 9

-criminalised 1994

Question 10

Women in work

Answer 10

-1993 68% of women in employment
-1996, 50% of employees were women
-pay improved but only 80% of mens earnings

Question 11

Progress on racial issues

Answer 11

-race riots in 1991/2 mainly by young white men in deprived estates
-1987 election four non white MPs elected, all held seats in 1992

Question 12

Racial problems

Answer 12

-1992 tory john taylor lost to lib dems, racism from local torys
-stephen lawrence murdered by white youths 1993
-cps decided not to convict, didnt assess case properly assumed lawrence was perpetrator rather than victim due to his race

Question 13

Muslims in britain

Answer 13

-asylum seekers from somalia, afghanistan, iraq and migrants from bangladesh, india, pakistan arrived, many of them muslim
-salman rushdie published satanic verses 1988, blasphemous to muslims
-forced into hiding as ayatollah issued a fatwa against him