I should probably subtitle this subject-heading "shameless self-promotion."
Abbie Hoffman once said (with a smile) "there couldn't have been the sixties if we hadn't had the fifties." For a neat overview of why the sixties sexual revolution had to happen, read my "Dark Ages: Life in the USA, 1945-1960" (South End Press).
Chapters ten and eleven deal with family life and growing up in the postwar era. There is a neat little section on the "horny fifties," as well as sections on "rocks and greasers," "anti-feminism," and the first stirrings of the feminist movement." I cover dating and making out, DA haircuts, and quote publications aimed at teenage girls.
Marty Jezer
Author:
Stuttering: A Life Bound Up in Words
Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
Rachel Carson: Author, Biologist
The Dark Ages: Life in the USA, 1945-1960
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----- Original Message -----
From: Charlotte Pagni <pagni@umich.edu>
To: <sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu>; <epm2@lehigh.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 12:42 AM
Subject: [sixties-l] re: sex rev afterthoughts/Ted
> Ted,
>
> I look forward to further exchange about your exciting book and course, as
> soon as time permits. [Don't know the work you mentioned; will check it
> out.]
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