Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks

Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks
ISBN-10
0231502559
ISBN-13
9780231502559
Series
Shaky Ground
Category
Social Science
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2002-01-02
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Author
Alice Echols

Description

Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps an alternative history of contemporary American culture, taking on such subjects as hippies, gay/lesbian and women's liberation, disco and the racial politics of music, and artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell and Lenny Kravitz. Echols upends many of our bedrock assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, challenging in particular the notions that the '60s represented a total rupture with the past and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change.

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