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Online-Ressource (349 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781592132003
Series Statement:
Critical Perspectives On The P
Content:
How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. 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
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction I; Introduction II; 1 Beyond Declension: Feminist Radicalism in the 1970s and 1980s; 2 The Land Belongs to the People: Reframing Urban Protest in Post-Sixties Philadelphia; 3 Unpacking the Vietnam Syndrome: The Coup in Chile and the Rise of Popular Anti-Interventionism; 4 The Movement Inside: BBS Films and the Cultural Left in the New Hollywood; 5 In the Name of Austerity: Middle-Class Consumption and the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973-1974; 6 Taking Over Domestic Space: The Battered Women's Movement and Public Protest
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7 Fabulous Politics: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Movements, 1969-19998 A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993; 9 Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999; 10 Out of Labor's Dark Age: Sexual Politics Comes to the Workplace; 11 Autoworkers at Lordstown: Workplace Democracy and American Citizenship; 12 Cartoon Politics: The Case of the Purloined Parents; 13 At the End of the Century; About the Contributors;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781592138463
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781592132003
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The World Sixties Made : Politics And Culture In Recent America
Language:
English
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