Rick,
Try Beth Bailey's "Sex in the Heartland" (Harvard, 2000). It
looks at changing sexual mores in the nation's heartland through a
case study of Lawrence, Kansas. It's accessible for students, and
offers a fresh look at the idea of a sexual revolution.
Rusty
>Sixties List Members: I have taught a course on the 1960s at Indiana
>State University called "The Sixties: Counterculture and Protest" for
>more than six years. The one area I have trouble finding good readings
>(either primary or secondary) is the sexual revolution. By sexual
>revolution I don't just mean hippies but the change in mores in this era
>from miniskirts and Playboy to Masters and Johnson and the singles and
>disco scene. I have used selections from Stephanie Coontz's book "The
>Way We Never Were" with some success but am stumped for other reading
>suitable for undergraduates in a general education class. I am also
>wondering if there is a broader interpretive work I can use to help
>conceptualize the sexual revolution.
>
>Does anyone out there have suggestions?
>
>
>Rich Schneirov
>Dept of History
>Indiana State University
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