freelove movement

E199198

The free love movement was a 19th- and early 20th-century social and political campaign that challenged traditional marriage, advocating sexual freedom, women's autonomy, and relationships based on mutual consent rather than legal or religious constraints.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
freelove movement canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf political movement
sexual reform movement
social movement
advocatesFor relationships based on mutual consent
sexual freedom
women's autonomy
associatedWithConcept birth control advocacy
companionate relationships
divorce reform
voluntary unions
corePrinciple consensual relationships without compulsory marriage
critique of marriage as a form of female subordination
individual choice in intimate relationships
separation of sex and marriage
criticizes double standards in sexual morality
marriage as a religious obligation
marriage as an economic contract
emergedInContextOf 19th-century social reform movements
early feminist movements
secularist and anticlerical movements
facesOppositionFrom conservative moral reformers
proponents of traditional family values
religious institutions
geographicScope Europe
North America
hasGoal destigmatization of nonmarital sex
freedom to form and dissolve unions without state interference
recognition of women's rights within relationships
reform of marriage laws
hasMainPeriod 19th century
early 20th century
influenced 1960s sexual revolution
countercultural critiques of marriage
later sexual liberation movements
influencedBy Enlightenment ideas about individual liberty
anarchism
feminism
socialism
utopian socialism
opposes legal constraints on intimate relationships
religious constraints on intimate relationships
traditional marriage norms
relatedTo birth control movement
marriage reform movement
secularism movement
women's suffrage movement
timePeriodEnd early 1900s
timePeriodStart early 1800s

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Voltairine de Cleyre movement freelove movement