Girl Trouble (38 page)

50
Ibid.

51
‘Welcome Home Beatles',
Daily Mirror
, 22 February 1964, p. 1.

52
‘“Beatlemania” at Buckingham Palace',
Daily Mirror
, 27 October 1965.

53
Quoted in ‘We've Got to Beat the Beatles – MP tells Women Tories',
Daily Mirror,
5 December 1963.

54
Johnson, P., ‘The Menace of Beatlism',
New Statesman
, 28 February 1964, pp. 326–7. Quoted in Fowler, D.,
Youth Culture in Modern Britain, c. 1920–1970,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p. 171.

55
‘Beatles Have No Sex Appeal, Says Doctor',
Daily Mirror,
28 May 1964, p. 13.

56
Adler, B.,
Love Letters to the Beatles
, London: Anthony Blond, 1964, and see article in
Daily Mirror
, 5 September 1964, p. 9.

57
Landau, Cécile,
Growing Up in the Sixties,
London: Macdonald Optima, 1991, p. 63; see also p. 32.

58
‘Fifteen Tiddly Schoolgirls on the Mat',
Daily Mirror
, 28 October 1963.

59
‘Beatlemania! It's Happening Everywhere – Even in Sedate Cheltenham',
Daily Mirror
, 2 November 1963, p. 3.

60
Ehrenreich, B., Hess, E., and Jacobs, G.,
Remaking Love: The Feminization of Sex,
New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1986, esp. pp. 17–35.

61
Ibid., p. 6.

62
Brown, H. Gurley,
Sex and the Single Girl,
London: Frederick Mueller, 1963. The influence of
Sex and the Single Girl
was discussed in many of the obituaries which followed her death in 2012. See, for example, ‘Why the Sexual Revolution Needed a Sexual Revolutionary',
Atlantic,
13 August 2012.
www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2012/08/why-the-sexual-revolution-needed-a-sexual-revolutionary/261492/
.

63
For an interesting discussion of Helen Gurley Brown, see Berebitsky, J., ‘The Joy of Work: Helen Gurley Brown, Gender and Sexuality in the White-Collar Office',
Journal of the History of Sexuality
, 15:1, 2006, pp. 89–127.

64
Ouellette, L., ‘Inventing the Cosmo Girl: Class Identity and Girl-Style American Dreams',
Media, Culture and Society,
21:3, 1999, pp. 359–83.

65
Abrams, M.,
The Teenage Consumer
, London: London Press Exchange, 1961.

66
‘Call Them Spendagers!',
Daily
Mirror,
1 October 1963, p. 9; ‘Peter Pans in Never Never Land',
Daily Mirror
, 3 October 1963, p. 9; ‘Boom-Girls! They run sports cars and pay for boyfriends on dates',
Daily Mirror,
10 February 1960, p. 21.

67
Anant, V., ‘Big City Loneliness',
Picture Post,
3 March 1956, pp. 12–13.

68
Pringle, A., ‘Chelsea Girl', in Maitland, S.,
Very Heaven: Looking Back at the 1960s
, London: Virago, 1988, p. 38.

69
Carstairs, G. M., ‘Teenage Sexual Behaviour',
The Listener,
25 November 1965, pp. 835–7.

70
Schofield, M., with Bynner, J., Lewis, P., and Massie, P.,
The Sexual Behaviour of Young People,
London: Longmans, 1965.

71
Ibid., pp. 124, 107.

72
Barlow, J.,
Term of Trial,
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961;
www.imdb.com/title/tt0056568/
.

73
The St Trinian's series began with Searle, R.,
Hurrah for St Trinian's and Other Lapses,
London: Macdonald, 1948. For recent compilations of the drawings see
The Curse of St Trinian's: The Best of the Drawings,
London: Pavilion, 1993;
St Trinian's, the Cartoons,
London: Penguin, 2007.

74
The first St Trinian's film was
The Belles of St Trinian's
(1954). This was followed by
Blue Murder at St Trinian's
(1957),
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
(1960),
The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery
(1966),
Wildcats of St Trinian's
(1980),
St Trinian's
(2007),
St Trinian's 2, The Legend of Fritton's Gold
(2009) and, most recently,
St Trinian's Versus the World
, 2012.

75
www.imdb.com/title/tt0058169/
.

76
‘Erskine, R.' (Roger Erskine Longrigg),
The Passion Flower Hotel: A Novel,
London: Jonathan Cape, 1962; see also article in
Books Monthly
,
www.imdb.com/title/tt0058169/
(retrieved 9 April 2012); obituary of Roger Longrigg in
The Times,
16 March 2000.

77
Obituary of Roger Longrigg in
The Times,
16 March 2000.

78
Schofield,
Sexual Behaviour of Young People,
p. 107.

79
Galloway, J.,
All Made Up
, London: Granta, 2011.

80
Ryle, A.,
Student Casualties,
London: Allen Lane, 1969, pp. 120, 124.

81
McCance, C., and Hall, D. J., ‘Sexual Behaviour and Contraceptive Practice of Unmarried Female Undergraduates at Aberdeen University',
British Medical Journal
, 17 June 1972, pp. 694–700.

82
Lively, P.,
A House Unlocked
, London: Penguin, 2001, p. 178.

83
See Dyhouse,
Students
, p. 106.

84
Useful on the history of pressure to legalise abortion are Kandiah, M., and Staerck, G. (eds),
The Abortion Act 1967
, which brings together material from a seminar held by the Institute of Contemporary History in the School of Advanced Study at the University of London in July 2001,
www.kcl.ac.uk/innovation/groups/ich/witness/archives/PDFfiles/AbortionAct1967.pdf
; see also the collection of leading campaigner Diane Munday's papers, held in the Bishopsgate Institute in London..

85
Kandiah and Staerck,
The Abortion Act 1967
; see introduction by Stephen Brooke.

86
Cook, H.,
The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex and Contraception, 1800–1975,
Oxford University Press, 2004.

87
Dyhouse,
Students,
Chapter 5
; Dyhouse,
No Distinction of Sex?
,
Chapters 2
and
5
for the history
of separate treatment of female students.

88
See
Report of the Committee on the Age of Majority
(Latey Report), Cmnd 3342, London: HMSO, 1967, section ‘Historical Background'. The report was written in the main by Katharine Whitehorn.

89
There are far too many references to detail but see, for instance, ‘Three “Brides” Visit Gaol',
Daily Mirror
, 8 September 1959, pp. 12–13; ‘The Corsican Lovers Elope to Gretna',
Daily Mirror
, 15 April 1957, p. 24; ‘Gretna Grief',
Daily Mirror
, 30 November 1961, pp. 8–9.

90
Ibid., p. 29, para. 79.

91
Dyhouse,
No Distinction of Sex?
,
Chapters 2
and
5
; see also Dyhouse,
Students
.

92
Dyhouse,
No Distinction of Sex?
, p. 214.

93
Latey Report, p. 21, para. 38.

94
See evidence submitted to the Latey Committee on the Age of Majority in National Archives, LCO17/1–25; also RG 48/3089.

95
Latey Report, p. 27, para. 66.

96
A subject much debated at the time. See Hansard, Debate on Family Law Reform Bill, 1968–9, vol. 778, ibid pp. 38–106.

97
Cilla Black, quoted in
Honey
, April 1970, p. 9.

98
Maitland,
Very Heaven
, p. 15.

99
Grant, L.,
Sexing the Millennium,
London: HarperCollins, 1993, pp. 15–16.

100
Ibid.

6 Taking liberties

1
Daily Mirror
, 23 June 1964, p. 17.

2
Daily Mirror
, 4 July 1970, p. 12.

3
Interview in the
Independent
, 1 September 1996, p. 18; See also Faithfull, M. (with Dalton, D.),
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
, London: Fourth Estate, 2007.

4
‘I really do want to be good', interview in
Daily Mirror,
15 February 1969, pp. 6–7.

5
‘The Lusty Dreams of a Girl on Two Wheels',
Daily Mirror,
13 September 1968, pp. 22–3.

6
This remark is cited in the current Wikipedia entry for Marianne Faithfull (retrieved 10 April 2012) Faithfull ruefully admitted to having made the remark in an interview with
New Musical Express
in 1973; see Faithfull with Dalton,
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
, p. 114.

7
Ibid.
,
p. 126.

8
Proops, M., ‘Why Wed?',
Daily Mirror
, 9 October 1968, pp. 8–9; Short, D., ‘The Courage of Marianne',
Daily Mirror,
29 July 1972, p. 15.

9
Marianne Faithfull, interview with Ginny Dougary in
The Times,
21 January 2000. Britney Spears's lyric, ‘I'm Mrs Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous/I'm Mrs Oh My God That Britney's Shameless', would echo something of this attitude forty years later.

10
See, for instance, Weatherhead, L. D., ‘A Nation in Danger',
The Times,
20 September 1961, p. 13; ‘Countering the New Morality',
The Times,
29 September 1966, p. 11.

11
www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/479374/index.html
.

12
‘High Intelligence of Prison Girls',
The Times
, 8 October 1963, p. 5.

13
‘Countering the New Morality',
The Times,
29 September 1966, p. 11.

14
‘Parents' Responsibility', letter from Professor Ivor Mills, in
The Times
, 9 October 1972, p. 13.

15
Regan, S., ‘Are We Getting Our-Money's Worth out of the Students?',
News of the World,
11 November 1968.

16
Regan, S., ‘Sex in the Universities',
News of the World
, 17 November 1968.

17
‘A Girl with a Man in Her Cupboard',
Daily Mirror
, 26 June 1971, p. 5.

18
See ‘Procedures on Expelled Student “Full of Holes”',
Guardian,
29 June 1971, p. 5; ‘Sex and the Single Student: Richard Bourne on Lord Denning's Decision',
Guardian
, 10 July 1971, p. 11; ‘Lord Denning: Students and Morals', in
Guardian
, 16 July 1971, p. 10.

19
Alan Simpson, ‘Lord Denning: Students and Morals',
Guardian
, 16 July 1971, p. 10.

20
Whipple, A., ‘Speaking for Whom? The 1971 Festival of Light and the Search for the “Silent Majority”',
Contemporary British History
, 24:3, 2010, pp. 319–39.

21
Ibid., pp. 335–6.

22
Riches, V.,
Sex and Social Engineering: How the Sex Education Lobby Is Undermining Society,
The Responsible Society, 1986.

23
Palmer, T.,
The Trials of Oz
, London: Blond and Briggs, 1971.

24
‘More Girls in London Have VD',
The Times,
21 July 1970, p. 2.

25
Whitehouse, M.,
Whatever Happened to Sex?
Hove: Wayland Publishing, 1977, p. 9.

26
Schofield,
Promiscuity
, p. 162.

27
Schofield,
The Sexual Behaviour of Young People
.

28
Hampshire, J., and Lewis, J., ‘“The Ravages of Permissiveness”: Sex Education and the Permissive Society',
Twentieth Century British History
, 15:3, 2004, pp. 290–312.

29
Riches,
Sex and Social Engineering
; The Responsible Society was one of the predecessors of the Family Education Trust, see website of Family Education Trust.
www.famyouth.org.uk/about.php
, retrieved 11 April 2012.

30
Limond, D., ‘“I never imagined that the time would come”; Martin Cole, the
Growing Up
Controversy and the Limits of School Sex Education in 1970s England',
History of Education
, 37:3, 2008, pp. 409–29. The film
Growing Up
is reproduced as part of a two-DVD set produced by the British Film Institute (BFI), entitled
The Joy of Sex Education.

31
Muscutt was later reinstated. See Limond, ‘“I never imagined that the time would come”', pp. 418–19.

32
Paul Ferris, ‘Teenage Sex/The New Dilemma',
Observer
, 18 July 1971, p. 21; ‘Sex Debate Cancelled Because of Publicity',
The Times,
6 July 1971, p. 3.

33
Hoffman, Mary M., ‘Assumptions in Sex Education Books',
Educational Review,
27:3, 1975, pp. 211–220.

34
Perry, P.,
Your Guide to the Opposite Sex,
London: Pitman, 1970, as cited in Hoffman,
Your Guide
, p. 216.

35
Pomeroy, W. B.,
Boys and Sex
, cited in Hoffman,
Your Guide
, p. 216.

36
Hill, M., and Lloyd-Jones, M.,
Sex Education: The Erroneous Zone
, London: National Secular Society, 1970.