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OverviewWhen 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: David AllynPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138135093ISBN 10: 1138135097 Pages: 404 Publication Date: 29 January 2016 Recommended Age: 13 years Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Single Girls, Double Standards 2. Beatniks and Bathing Suits 3. The Pill: A Prescription for Equality 4. Love the One You're With 5. Obscenity on Trial 6. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Harrad Experiment and Group Marriage 7. The Right to Marry: Loving vs. Virginia 8. In Loco Parentis 9. Strange Bedfellows: Christian Clergy and the Sexual Revolution 10. Performing the Revolution 11. Sticky Fingers 12. Gay Liberation 13. The Golden Age of Sexual Science 14. Medicine and Morality 15. Why Do These Words Sound Nasty? 16. (Id)eology: Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, and Fritz Perls 17. No Privacy Please: Group Sex in the Seventies 18. The Joy of Sales: The Commercialization of Sexual Freedom 19. Lesbian Liberation: Equal but Separate 20. Sexual Freedom on Demand 21. Counterrevolution and Crisis Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index but SeparateReviewsMake Love, Not War is must reading for sex educators, counselors, and therapists of the 21st century--many of whom were too young to have experienced the 1960's and 1970's themselves. -- Alice Laddas Journal of SexEducation and Therapy David Allyn's brisk history of the sexual revolution in America deserves a wide readership and considerable praise. -- American Historical Review Filled with fresh details, this is a strong debut from a gifted young cultural critic. -- Elaine Showalter Allyn has done a remarkable job of bringing together all the diverse strands of the sexual revolution -- from the principled and political to the purely hedonistic and outright kooky. -- Barbara Ehrenreich A useful and readable chronicle of the melange of activity and talk that changed American irreversibly. -- Todd Gitlin, Chicago Tribune Entertaining. A very readable and intelligent analysis of an often oversimplified era. -- Entertainment Weekly No other book gathers together this array of material.Allyn fascinatingly integrates hitherto unconnected figures.useful and readable. The New YorkTimes Book Review. One must admire the wealth of detail and documented anecdotes that fuel his steamy narrative. -- The NewYorker Make Love, Not War is must reading for sex educators, counselors, and therapists of the 21st century--many of whom were too young to have experienced the 1960's and 1970's themselves. -- Alice Laddas Journal of Sex Education and Therapy David Allyn's brisk history of the sexual revolution in America deserves a wide readership and considerable praise. -- American Historical Review Filled with fresh details, this is a strong debut from a gifted young cultural critic. -- Elaine Showalter Allyn has done a remarkable job of bringing together all the diverse strands of the sexual revolution -- from the principled and political to the purely hedonistic and outright kooky. -- Barbara Ehrenreich A useful and readable chronicle of the melange of activity and talk that changed American irreversibly. -- Todd Gitlin, Chicago Tribune Entertaining. A very readable and intelligent analysis of an often oversimplified era. -- Entertainment Weekly No other book gathers together this array of material.Allyn fascinatingly integrates hitherto unconnected figures.useful and readable. The New York Times Book Review. One must admire the wealth of detail and documented anecdotes that fuel his steamy narrative. -- The New Yorker Author InformationDavid 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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