Title
- American History And Culture (New York University Press)
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edited by Avital H. Bloch and Lauri UmanskyPublication Details
BookNew York University Press2005Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) E841 .I47 2005 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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?The Journal of American History “For too long, cultural historians of the Sixties have marginalized women, and women?s historians of that period have privileged the political over the cultural. Through the lives of women as varied as folksinger Joan Baez, poet Sonia Sanchez, and artist Judy Chicago, Impossible to Hold reveals the centrality of women to the culture of the Sixties, and the significance of the cultural to women.” The collection’s sixteen original essays move beyond conventional discussions of hippie chicks and Weatherwomen to examine the diverse lives of women who helped to shape religion, sports, literature, and music, among other aspects of the cultural hodgepodge known as the sixties. The book traces women who sought to break into “male” fields, women whose personae and work link the radical sixties to earlier cultural traditions, and those who consciously confronted power structures and demanded change. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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- 1. The "astronautrix" and the "magnificent male" : Jerrie Cobb’s quest to be the first woman in America’s manned space program / Margaret A. Weitekamp
- 2. Building utopia : Mary Otis Stevens and the Lincoln, Massachusetts, house / Susana Torre
- 3. Life on the cusp : Lynda Huey and Billie Jean King / James Pipkin
- 4. Balancing act : Ursula Kroeber Le Guin / Zina Petersen
- 5. Ambassadors with hips : Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and the allure of Africa in the black arts movement / Julia L. Foulkes
- 6. Take everyone to heaven with us : Anne Waldman’s poetry cultures / Roxanne Power Hamilton
- 7. Joan Baez : a singer and activist / Avital H. Bloch
- 8. "Ain’t no mountain high enough" : Diana Ross as American pop- cultural icon of the 1960s / Jaap Kooijman
- 9. The choices before us : Anita M. Caspary and the immaculate heart community / Susan Marie Maloney
- 10. Shaping the sixties : the emergence of Barbara Deming / Judith McDaniel
- 11. Yoko Ono and the unfinished music of "John & Yoko" : imagining gender and racial equality in the late 1960s / Tamara Levitz
- 12. "Hanoi Jane" lives : the 1960s legacy of Jane Fonda / Barbara L. Tischler
- 13. "I feel the earth move" : Carole King, Tapestry, and the liberated woman / Judy Kutulas
- 14. Sonia Sanchez : "fearless about the world" / Michelle Nzadi Keita
- 15. A beacon for the people : the sixties in Dianne McIntyre / Veta Goler
- 16. Judy Chicago in the 1960s / Gail Levin
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- 0814799094
- 0814799108
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