During the time Jeanette Winterson grew up, feminism was in it's second wave. After winning the right to vote and changed the working and educational laws in the first wave, in the 60's and 70's moved on to the role in which women play in society. The fight for women to earn just as much as men and to be respected in the work place.
Jeanette's Mother was a housewife, and whilst her Father working all day she would stay at home praying, cleaning and preparing meals. At the age of seven, Jeanette was forced to go to school although her mother disagreed with the idea, she has to go. This shows how her Mother was very stuck in the ways of the 40's and 50's where women would be housewives and not workers.
Jeanette broke this convention too and ended up studying at Oxford University. One of the top universities in Britain.
Lesbian and Gays Rights during the 60's and 70's
Arena Three Magazine, the first British social and political magazine.
Homosexual Law Reform Committee faught to change homosexuality from being classed as a mental illness. The first meeting was held in Manchester - where Jeanette Winterson grew up.
The government changed the laws in the UK to making homosexual relationships legal.
The first ever Gay Pride celebration in London in 1972.
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