The World Sixties Made: Politics And Culture In Recent America

by Van Gosse, Richard Moser (Contribution by)

Overview

The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. Together these essays demonstrate that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592132010
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	10/08/2003
Series:	Critical Perspectives On The P
Edition description:	1
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction I	Postmodern America: A New Democratic Order in the Second Gilded Age	1
Introduction II	Was It the End or Just a Beginning? American Storytelling and the History of the Sixties	37
1	Beyond Declension: Feminist Radicalism in the 1970s and 1980s	52
2	The Land Belongs to the People: Reframing Urban Protest in Post-Sixties Philadelphia	67
3	Unpacking the Vietnam Syndrome: The Coup in Chile and the Rise of Popular Anti-Interventionism	100
4	The Movement Inside: BBS Films and the Cultural Left in the New Hollywood	114
5	In the Name of Austerity: Middle-Class Consumption and the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973-1974	138
6	Taking Over Domestic Space: The Battered Women's Movement and Public Protest	162
7	Fabulous Politics: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Movements, 1969-1999	191
8	A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993	219
9	Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999	242
10	Out of Labor's Dark Age: Sexual Politics Comes to the Workplace	265
11	Autoworkers at Lordstown: Workplace Democracy and American Citizenship	289
12	Cartoon Politics: The Case of the Purloined Parents	316
13	At the End of the Century	334
	About the Contributors	337