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Impossible to hold : women and culture in the 1960's / edited by Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky.
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- ISBN: 0814799094 (acid-free paper)
- ISBN: 0814799108 (pbk. : acid-free paper) :
- Physical Description: viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : New York University Press, c2005.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | The "astronautrix" and the "magnificent male" : Jerrie Cobb's quest to be the first woman in America's manned space program / Margaret A. Weitekamp -- Building utopia : Mary Otis Stevens and the Lincoln, Massachusetts, house / Susana Torre -- Life on the cusp : Lynda Huey and Billie Jean King / James Pipkin -- Balancing act : Ursula Kroeber Le Guin / Zina Petersen -- Ambassadors with hips : Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and the allure of Africa in the Black Arts movement / Julia L. Foulkes -- Take everyone to heaven with us : Anne Waldman's poetry cultures / Roxanne Power Hamilton -- Joan Baez : a singer and activist / Avital H. Bloch -- "Ain't no mountain high enough" : Diana Ross as American pop-cultural icon of the 1960s / Jaap Kooijman -- The choices before us : Anita M. Caspary and the immaculate heart community / Susan Marie Maloney -- Shaping the sixties : the emergence of Barbara Deming / Judith McDaniel -- Yoko Ono and the unfinished music of "John & Yoko" : imagining gender and racial equality in the late 1960s / Tamara Levitz -- "Hanoi Jane" lives : the 1960s legacy of Jane Fonda / Barbara L. Tischler -- "I feel the earth move" : Carole King, Tapestry, and the liberated woman / Judy Kutulas -- Sonia Sanchez : "fearless about the world" / Michelle Nzadi Keita -- A beacon for the people : the sixties in Dianne McIntyre / Veta Goler -- Judy Chicago in the 1960s / Gail Levin. |
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| Subject: | United States > History > 1961-1969 > Biography. Women > United States > Biography. Women > United States > Social conditions > 20th century. United States > Social conditions > 1960-1980. |
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Impossible to Hold : Women and Culture in The 1960s
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."
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