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Title:

Revisiting the Sixties : interdisciplinary perspectives on America's longest decade / Laura Bieger, Christian Lammert (eds.).

Publisher:

Campus Verlag,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Subject:

United States--History--1961-1969.
Nineteen sixties.

Other Authors:

Bieger, Laura editor of compilation.
Lammert, Christian, editor of compilation.
John F. Kennedy-Institut f©ơr Nordamerikastudien.

Notes:

"Most of the contributions to this volume were first given as papers in the context of a lecture series at the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universit©Þt Berlin"--Preface. Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Mad men: sadnesses of the sixties / Elisabeth K. Paefgen. The three faces of the new left: civil rights, the anti-war movement, women's liberation / Eli Zaretsky -- Long shadows of the new left: from Students for a Democratic Society to Occupy Wall Street / Blair Taylor -- Feminism's two legacies: a tale of ambivalence / Nancy Fraser -- The Free University Berlin and the John F. Kennedy Institute in the sixties / WInfried Fluck -- "The man for the 60s"/"The man of the 60s": John F. Kennedy and the thousand days / Andreas Etges -- The Gulf of Tonkin incident and deception in American foreign policy / Lora Anne Viola -- Goldwater's phoenix: individualism, suburbia, and the idyll of the apocalypse / Andrew S. Gross -- Thomas Pynchon, postmodernism, and the rise of the new right in California / Casey Shoop -- Problems of historicizing and practices of reading: Ralph Ellison's Three days before the shooting / Florian Sedlmeier -- The cinema of insanity: psychiatry, popular culture, and the flexibilization of normality / Simon Schleusner -- Absorption and utopia: mapping the sixties in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point / Sulgi Lie -- Faith Ringgold's Slave rape series: a counter-narrative to African (American) women as victims / Vivien Green Fryd -- Remembering Motown: baby boomers, blackness, and the sixties in pop-cultural memory / Martin L©ơthe -- Mad men: sadnesses of the sixties / Elisabeth K. Paefgen.

Series:

North American studies ; volume 32

ISBN:

3593399903 (pbk.)
9783593399904 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)863141870

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)