Ted-- Thanks for your comment about the interview assignment. It was
quite a successful exercise. Without revealing ALL my secrets, I even
invited the class to practice their interview questions on me!
Actually, I had previously posted the reading list to Rich, the original
inquirer, and posted the course description to the group by accident.
Anyway, in case you're interested, below is the VERY preliminary reading
list. I'm writing a dissertation about links between sexology and
mainstream cinema in the sixties --Hollywood Does Kinsey: Cinema, Sexology,
and Sexual Regulation; so I'd be intersted to know what work you do on the
sexual revolution.
Best from another child of the sixties,
Charlotte
Pagni AC Humanities Theme Course Proposal for Fall 2001: The Sexual
Revolution
PRELIMINARY READINGS AND SUPPORT MATERIALS
Allyn, David: Make Love Not War
(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2000).
Altman, Meryl: "Everything They Always Wanted You to Know: The Ideology of
Popular Sex Literature"
Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality, Carole S. Vance, ed.,
(Boston and London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), 115-30.
Angelou, Maya; Art Buchwald, Dyan Cannon, and Liberace: Interview Essays
Excerpts from The First Time, Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor Fleming, (New
York: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1975).
Boyers, Robert: "Attitudes Toward Sex in American 'High Culture'"
Sex and the Contemporary Scene, Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, Edward Sagarin, ed.,(March 1968), 36-52.
Bright, Susie: "Born-Again Virgin"
Susie Bright?s Sexual State of the Union, (New York: Simon and Schuster,
1997), 73-81.
Brown, Helen Gurley: "Women Alone? Oh Come Now!"
Sex and the Single Girl, (New York: Bernard Geiss Associates, 1962), 3-11.
Connell, R.W.: "Sexual Revolution"
New Sexual Agendas, Lynne Segal, ed., (New York: New York University Press,
1997), 60-76.
Cox, Harvey: "Playboy?s Doctrine of Male"
The Pop Culture Tradition: Readings with Analysis for Writing, Edward M.
White, ed., (New York: W.W. Norton, 1972), 16-21.
D?Acci, Julie: "Nobody?s Woman? honey west and the New Sexuality"
The Revolution Wasn?t Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict,
Lynn Spigel and Michael Curtin, eds., (New York and London: Routledge,
1997), 72-93.
Dell?Olio, Anselma: "The Sexual Revolution Wasn?t Our War"
The First Ms. Reader, Francine Klagsbrun, ed., (New York: Warner Books,
Inc., 1973), 124-132.
D?Emilio, John and Estelle Freedman: "Sexual Revolutions," "The Sexualized
Society," and "The Contemporary Political Crisis"
Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, (New York: Harper &
Rowe, 1988), 301-60.
Dines, Gail: "I Buy It for the Articles; Playboy Magazine and the
Sexualization of Consumerism"
Gender, Race, and Class in Media: A Text-Reader, Gail Dines and Jean M.
Humez, eds., (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995), 254-62.
Douglas, Susan J.: "Sex and the Single Teenager"
Where the Girls Are: Growing up Female with the Mass Media, (New York:
Random House, 1994), 61-82.
Duggan, Lisa and Hunter, Nan D.: "Contextualizing the Sexuality Debates:
a Chronology"
Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, Duggan and Hunter, eds.,
(New York and London: Routledge,1995), 16-29.
Dyer, Richard: "Seen to Be Believed: Some Problems in the Representation
of Gay People as Typical"
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations, (London and New York:
Routledge, 1993), 19-51.
Ehrenreich, Barbara: "Playboy Joins the Battle of the Sexes"
The Hearts of Men: American Dreams and the Flight from Commitment, (New
York: Doubleday, 1983), 42-51.
Ehrenreich, Barbara: "Up from the Valley of the Dolls: The Origins of the
Sexual Revolution"
Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex, Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth
Hess, and Gloria Jacobs, (New York: Doubleday, 1986), 39-73.
Ferdinand, Theodore N.: "Sex Behavior and the American Class Structure:
A Mosaic"
Sex and the Contemporary Scene, Annals of the American Academy of Political
and Social Science, Edward Sagarin, ed.,(March 1968) 76-85.
Friedan, Betty: "The Problem That Has No Name"
Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings, Charles Lemert, ed.
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1993), 387-390.
Hall, Stuart: "Regulation: Governing Cultures"
Media and Cultural Regulation, Kenneth Thompson, ed., (London and
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997), 227-236.
Holmes, John Clellon: "Revolution Below the Belt"
Playboy: Sex American Style, Frank Robinson and Nat Lehrman, eds.
(Chicago: Playboy Press, 1971), 2-29.
Irvine, Janice M.: "Introduction" to Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in
Modern American Sexology
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990), 1-23.
Kellner, Douglas: "Reading Images Critically: Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy"
Gender, Race and Class in Media: A Text-Reader, Gail Dines and Jean M.
Humez, eds., (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1995), 126-132.
Martin, Dell and Lyon, Phyllis: "Lesbian Love and Sexuality"
The First Ms. Reader, Francine Klagsbrun, ed., (New York: Warner Books,
Inc., 1973), 135-144.
Medovoi, Leerom: "A Yippie-Panther Pipe Dream: Rethinking Sex, Race, and the
Sexual Revolution"
Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s, Hillary Radner and
Moya Luckett, eds., (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999), 133-178.
Money, John: "The Sexual Revolution: A Manifesto"
Reprinted from Forum in The Journal of Human Relations; Forum International
Ltd., 1978.
Padgug, Robert: "Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History"
Radical History Review 20, (Spring/Summer 1979), 3-23.
Poussaint, Alvin F.: "Blacks and the Sexual Revolution"
Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research 2:4 (April1978) 38-42.
Rosenberg, Bernard and Bensmen, Joseph: "Sexual Patterns in Three
Ethnic Subcultures of an American Underclass"
Sex and the Contemporary Scene, Annals of the Academy of Political and
Social Science 376 (March 1968), 76-85.
Ross, Ellen and Rayna Rapp: "Sex and Society: A Research Note from Social
History and Anthropology"
Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, Ann Snitow, Christine
Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds., (New York: Monthly Review Press,
1983), 51-73.
Roy, Rustum and Della: "Is Monogamy Outdated?"
The New Sexual Revolution, Lester A. Kirkendall and Robert N. Whitehurst,
eds., (New York: Donald W. Brown, Inc,1971), 131-148.
Segal, Lynne: "Feminist Sexual Politics and the Heterosexual Predicament"
New Sexual Agendas, Lynne Segal, ed., (New York: New York University Press,
1997), 77-89.
Smigel, Erwin O. and Seiden, Rita: "The Decline and Fall of the Double
Standard"
Sex and the Contemporary Scene, Annals of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science, Edward Sagarin, ed.,(March 1968) 6-17.
Weeks, Jeffrey: "Sexual Values Revsited"
New Sexual Agendas, Lynne Segal, ed., (New York: New York University Press,
1997), 43-59.
SAMPLE OF POPULAR PRESS READINGS
Playboy 1955--Naked advertising.
Color 1953: Are Negroes more sexy than whites?
Ebony--Why Negro women are not in the Kinsey Report.
Personal Romances 1-54: The Kinsey Report--Will it change your moral
standards?
Redbook 10-62: Sex on the campus: the real issue [Margaret Mead].
Today's Woman 3-52: New light on the unhappy wife.
Look 2-4-58: American male: Why do women dominate him?
Coronet 11-55: Third sex--Guilt or sickness?
Saturday Review 6-23-56: Sexual behavior in the American movie.
Miami Herald 4-7-64: Campus call of Freud and Kinsey.
Esquire 1972: What is the new impotence, and who's got it?
Time 1964: The second sexual revolution.
SUPPORT MATERIALS (Period and Contemporary)
Print
Documents from film and Kinsey Institute archives; popular sexology books;
magazine and newspaper articles; pulp and erotic literature.
Graphic
Advertisements; fine art; cartoons; book jacket graphics; product and home
design.
Audio
Popular musical recordings (girl groups, Motown, Beatles, rock, blues and
jazz, dance novelty).
Audiovisual (VHS Video Format)
Numerous film and television clips; movie trailers; one or two
feature-length films; two or three complete television shows; documentary
footage; sex education films; activist videos; erotic films and videos.
Sample of featured mainstream film titles: Peyton Place (1957); Where the
Boys Are (1960); College Confidential (1960); Beach Party (1963); Sex and
the Single Girl (1964); Boys? Night Out (1962); The Chapman Report (1962);
James Bond series; Bob&Carol&Ted&Alice (1969); Everything You always Wanted
to Know About Sex... (1972). Featured television shows: honey west
(1965-66); Burke?s Law (1963-65).
--On Saturday, February 3, 2001 1:19 PM -0500 Ted Morgan <epm2@lehigh.edu>
wrote:
> Two comments on unrelated posts --thanks to Ron Jacobs for passing along
> the much-needed update to Phil Och's "Love Me I'm a Liberal."
>
> And I liked Charlotte's assignment in her Sex. Rev. class and wonder why
> I never thought of having students do something like that to get back
> into the personal space of the 'counterculture' (for want of a better
> word) that their parents' generation grappled with. I've done something
> similar with interviewing people about the war & military service and it
> has often produced some marvelous family connections (e.g., fathers and
> uncles 'opening up' to their kids about an area they've kept silent
> about). Nice idea!
> Ted Morgan
>
> Charlotte Pagni wrote:
>
>> Dear Rich,
>>
>> Forgot to send you my Sex Rev course description and unit outline; find
>> them below. When I taught an English Composition course on the theme of
>> the sexual revolution, I had particular success with the
>> cross-generational interview assignment.
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