Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960sPaperback, 1 February 2005

Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s
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Part of Series
American History and Culture
Print Length
342 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
1 Feb 2005
ISBN-10
0814799108
ISBN-13
9780814799109

Description

With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination--and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way?
Unlike many accounts of the era, Impossible to Hold revels in the complexities of female identity and American culture. The collection's sixteen original essays move beyond conventional discussions of hippie chicks and Weatherwomen to examine the diverse lives of women who helped to shape religion, sports, literature, and music, among other aspects of the cultural hodgepodge known as the sixties.
From familiar names like Yoko Ono, Carole King, and Joan Baez to lesser-known figures like Anita Caspary and Barbara Deming, the women revealed in Impossible to Hold represent a variety of points on the celebrity and feminist spectrums. The book traces women who sought to break into "male" fields, women whose personae and work link the radical sixties to earlier cultural traditions, and those who consciously confronted power structures and demanded change. Separately and together, their cultural work informed the sixties and their biographies offer a lucid and complex picture of that proverbial "long decade."

Product Details

Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 February 2005
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.49 x 2.08 cm
ISBN-10:
0814799108
ISBN-13:
9780814799109
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
342
Publisher:
New York University Press
Weight:
471.74 gm

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