ABSTRACT
This final chapter will consider the suggestion that May ’68 brought an end to one particular era and opened another as far as feminism was concerned. Nobody predicted the events that rocked France, disturbed its superficial tranquillity; the France of the 1960s was not the location of ‘the sixties’ as they are commonly remembered. The 1960s constituted a decade of violence: it opened with war in Algeria and bombings on mainland France, with the Bay of Pigs and the assassination of John Kennedy; it continued with Vietnam, the SixDay War, the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, student unrest throughout the developed world and Russian tanks in Prague. The 1960s, when evoked by individuals remembering their own experience, are remembered differently: a decade of excitement, the Beatles, miniskirts, followed by flower power, love and peace, Woodstock, and the moon landing.
