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Impossible to hold : women and culture in the 1960's Cover Image Book Book

Impossible to hold : women and culture in the 1960's / edited by Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky.

Bloch, Avital H. (Added Author). Umansky, Lauri, 1959- (Added Author).

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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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