HIST 3121 1st Edition Lecture 12Outline of Last Lecture I. Paris Peace ConferenceII. “Big Three”III. German DilemmaIV. German Territorial lossV. Dismantling the Dual MonarchyVI. League of NationsVII. Separating the OttomansVIII. Failed Self- DeterminationOutline of Current Lecture I. Return to NormalcyII. Mass cultureIII. WritingIV. PaintingV. Post war Science/ societyVI. Gender and sexualityVII. Alexandra KollontaiVIII. Nativism and EugenicsThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Current LectureI. Return to Normalcy?a. Tensions over what is “normal” or “modern”b. Widespread uncertainty of futurec. Faith in science and technology as progressd. Convention and tradition vs. revolutione. Social conservatives vs. liberalsi. Religion and social justiceii. Gender roles and sexualityiii. Rural vs. urban lifestylesf. Consumerism and mass culture as comforting amidst change and uncertaintyII. Mass Culture-a. Transportation-i. Trains, planes, and automobiles1. C. Lindberg crosses Atlantic ocean in 1927 in plane2. Mass productionb. Mass communication and media-i. Radio, movies and newspaperii. “spectatorism” and advertisingc. Urban cculture-i. Apartments, sports, newspapers, department storesd. Consumerism and electrical goods-i. Lamps, stoves, refrigerator, radiose. Material goods and social distinctionsf. Mass culture & nationalismg. Mass culture & nativismh. Mass culture & globalizationi. “jazz age”III. Writing-a. Poetry-i. E.E. Cummingsii. T.S Eliotb. Prose-i. James Joyceii. E. Hemingway1. Said that after what he saw during the war, there was no way for him to write about happy thingsiii. V. Woolf1. Use of “stream of consciousness”IV. Painting-a. Growing use of photography and quality of filmb. Influence of Asian, Pacific and African societiesc. “primitivism” (dance, music, film)d. Expressionist, cubists, abstractionists and surrealisti. Picasso, Dali, Dix, KandinskyV. Postwar Science and Society-a. Revelations in physics and astronomyi. Relativity (1905 & 15)ii. Uncertainty (1925)iii. “Red Shift” (1929)b. Popularity of biology and psychologyi. “unconscious” and “repression of Freudian psychoanalysisii. Mutation of genes (1927) and moviesiii. Evolution and modern culturec. Scientists as a public figure-i. Einsteinii. Curieiii. Freudd. Sociologist Max Weber-i. “rationalization” of the world1. Belief that everything is knowable eventuallyVI. Gender and Sexuality-a. Women received the right to vote in the US and in Europe after WWIi. With restriction of age and property ownershipb. Gender unbalances from warc. Increase in women educationd. Increase in women employment and consumer powere. Feuds and discussions of sexualityf. Women in the Soviet Unioni. Alexandra KollontaiVII. Alexandra Kollontai-a. 1st female ambassadorb. “loyal” oppositionc. Wrote The Love of Worker Beesd. People in the Soviet Union strongly disliked her because of her constant opposition, many times she was asked or bribed to leaveVIII. Nativism and Eugenic-a. International regimes of passports and visas (US)i. Johnson- Reed Act (1924)ii. Various immigration actsb. Increase in global nativismi. 100% Americanism and “national origins” quotasii. Colonial immigrationc. Race and Eugenics-i. Involuntary sterilizationii. Buck vs. Bell (1927)1. The decision was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to improve the human race by eliminating "defectives" from the gene