Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History

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Routledge, 23 mai 2016 - 404 pages
When Helen Gurley Brown's Sex and the Single Girl hit bookstores in 1962, the sexual revolution was launched and there was no turning back. Soon came the pill, the end of censorship, the advent of feminism, and the rise of commercial pornography. Our daily lives changed in an unprecedented time of sexual openness and experimentation. Make Love, Not War is the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on first-hand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful fifties to the first tremors of rebellion in the early sixties to the heady heyday of the revolution. Bringing a fresh perspective to the turbulence of these decades, David Allyn argues that the sexual revolutionaries of the '60s and '70s, by telling the truth about their own histories and desires, forced all Americans to re-examine the very meaning of freedom. Written with a historian's attention to nuance and a novelist's narrative drive, Make Love, Not War is a provocative, vivid, and thoughtful account of one of the most captivating episodes in American history. Also includes an 8-page insert.
 

Table des matières

Introduction
3
1 Single Girls Double Standard
10
2 Beatniks and Bathing Suits
23
A Prescription for Equality
30
4 Love the One Youre With
41
5 Obscenity on Trial
54
The Harrad Experiment and Group Marriage
71
Loving v Virginia
85
14 Medicine and Morality
175
15 Why Do These Words Sound So Nasty?
184
Herbert Marcuse Norman O Brown and Fritz Perls
196
Group Sex in the Seventies
206
The Commercialization of Sexual Freedom
228
Equal But Separate
246
20 Sexual Freedom on Demand
256
21 Counterrevolution and Crisis
270

8 In Loco Parentis
93
Christian Clergy and the Sexual Revolution
108
10 Performing the Revolution
119
11 Sticky Fingers
135
12 Gay Liberation
145
13 The Golden Age of Sexual Science
166
Epilogue
295
Notes
301
Selected Bibliography
345
Index
367
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David Allyn has a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught history at Princeton. He is now a journalist and writer, and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The New York Daily News, and the Journal of American Studies. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.

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