Shaky Ground

by Echols, Alice

• ISBN13: 9780231106702
• ISBN10: 023110670X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps an alternative history of contemporary American culture, taking on such subjects as hippies, gay/lesbian and women's liberation, disco and the racial politics of music, and artists as diverse as Joni Mitchell and Lenny Kravitz. Echols upends many of our bedrock assumptions about American culture since the 1950s, challenging in particular the notions that the '60s represented a total rupture with the past and that the '70s marked the end of meaningful change.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Postwar America and the 1960s: the Long, Strange Trip	p. 15
Hope and Hype in Sixties Haight-Ashbury	p. 17
The Ike Age: Rethinking the 1950s	p. 51
"We Gotta Get Out of This Place": Notes Toward a Remapping of the Sixties	p. 61
"Nothing Distant About It": Women's Liberation and Sixties Radicalism	p. 75
Feminism, Sexual Freedom, and Identity Politics	p. 95
The Dworkinization of Catharine MacKinnon	p. 97
"Totally Ready to Go": Shulamith Firestone and The Dialectic of Sex	p. 103
The Taming of the Id: Feminist Sexual Politics, 1968-1983	p. 109
Queer Like Us?	p. 129
"Thousands of Men and a Few Hundred Women": Janis Joplin, Sexual Ambiguity, and Bohemia	p. 145
Gender Disobedience, Academia, and Popular Culture	p. 151
Turn the Beat Around	p. 157
"Shaky Ground": Popular Music in the Disco Years	p. 159
White Faces, Black Masks	p. 193
The Refuge of the Lions' Den: An Interview with John Paul Hammond	p. 198
"Play That Funky Music": An Interview with Lenny Kravitz	p. 201
"The Soul of a Martian": A Conversation with Joni Mitchell	p. 207
Notes	p. 223
Index	p. 285
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