I've had great success with Susan Douglas, _Where the Girls Are: Growing
Up Female with the Mass Media_, in a 60's class.
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Matthew J. Countryman
Assistant Professor of History and American Culture
1029 Tisch Hall 1003
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734 647-2434
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, hischnei wrote:
> 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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