The World Sixties Made

Politics and Culture in Recent America

By: Van Gosse (Editor), Roy Rosenzweig (Editor), Richard P. Moser (Editor)

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How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? "The World the Sixties Made", the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by the legacy of the New Left's social movements, from feminism to gay liberation to black power. Together these essays demonstrate that the America that emerged in the 1970s was a nation profoundly, even radically democratized.Van Gosse is Assistant Professor of History at Franklin and Marshall College; he is the author of "Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America" and "The Making of a New Left". Richard Moser is a National Field Representative of the American Association of University Professors and the author of "The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam Era".

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"An important volume, The World The Sixties Made fills a large niche in post-1968 historical scholarship. Gosse's introductory essay is excellent, compelling, and well argued. Moser's introduction is a key piece and a timely historical document. This will be a significant and influential book." --Brad Martin, History and Social Sciences Department, Bryant College "The continued relevance of the left of the 1960s is a major challenge to almost any contemporary understanding of that tumultuous decade. This is a very inventive contribution, arguing that the left remains far more important than often claimed. There is a lot of new and intriguing research here. It's a book well worth reading." --Ken Cmiel, University of Iowa "In this historical moment, when the forces of reason seem so strong, The World the Sixties Made reminds us just how much the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s accomplished--and that the future is not closed." --James William Gibson, author of The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam and Warrior Dreams: Paramilitary Culture in Post-Vietnam America

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Postmodern America: A New Democratic Order in the Second Gilded Age	p. 1
Was It the End or Just a Beginning? American Storytelling and the History of the Sixties	p. 37
Beyond Declension: Feminist Radicalism in the 1970s and 1980s	p. 52
The Land Belongs to the People: Reframing Urban Protest in Post-Sixties Philadelphia	p. 67
Unpacking the Vietnam Syndrome: The Coup in Chile and the Rise of Popular Anti-Interventionism	p. 100
The Movement Inside: BBS Films and the Cultural Left in the New Hollywood	p. 114
In the Name of Austerity: Middle-Class Consumption and the OPEC Oil Embargo of 1973-1974	p. 138
Taking Over Domestic Space: The Battered Women's Movement and Public Protest	p. 162
Fabulous Politics: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Movements, 1969-1999	p. 191
A Very American Epidemic: Memory Politics and Identity Politics in the AIDS Memorial Quilt, 1985-1993	p. 219
Holding the Rock: The "Indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999	p. 242
Out of Labor's Dark Age: Sexual Politics Comes to the Workplace	p. 265
Autoworkers at Lordstown: Workplace Democracy and American Citizenship	p. 289
Cartoon Politics: The Case of the Purloined Parents	p. 316
At the End of the Century	p. 334
About the Contributors	p. 337
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