Sights On The Sixties / / Barbara L. Tischler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tischler, Barbara L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Dickstein, Morris,; Ehrenreich, Barbara,; Gill, Gerald,; Gioglio, Gerald R.,; Goldstein, Jonathan,; Greene, Alexis,; Herman, Ellen,; Jones, Glenn W.,; Kent, Stephen A.,; Sanjek, David,; Stern, Mark,; Swerdlow, Amy,; Tischler, Barbara L.,; Whitfield, Stephen J.,; Wilcox, Clifford,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)

Barbara Tischler's goal is to understand the historical and cultural legacy of the 1960s. During the Gulf War, as politicians advocated positions and strategies, they made simplistic comparisons with the '60s. Such comparisons reinforced our need to understand that decade more clearly. With these papers Tischler brings together a group of scholars from a variety of disciplines, including American Studies, anthropology, film studies, history, literature, sociology, and theater. She notes how their contributions, taken separately and together, transcend the "good sixties/bad sixties" typology that has pervaded past analyses of the period. Several authors deal with movement leaders and great events, but the majority write about lesser-known events and people, to add depth and balance to our understanding of the decade. 1. Multi-disciplinary collection 2. Emphasis on less well-known events of the period 3. Presents balanced picture of the decade

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today" or Why We Need More 1960s Scholarship -- After Utopia: The 1960s Today -- Lyndon Johnson and the Democratization of the Party Process -- Agent Orange on Campus: The Summit-Spicerack Controversy at the University of Pennsylvania, 1965-1967 -- Antiwar Dissent in the College Press: The Universities of Illinois and Michigan -- Gentle Thursday: An SDS Circus in Austin, Texas, 1966-1969 -- Being and Doing: Humanistic Psychology and the Spirit of the 1960s -- The Stunt Man: Abbie Hoffman (1936-1989) -- Slogan Chanters to Mantra Chanters: A Deviance Analysis of Youth Religious Conversion in the Early 1970s -- Apocalypse Then: Apocalyptic Imagery and Documentary Reality in Rims of the 1960s -- The Arts and the Vietnam Antiwar Movement -- "Not My Son, Not Your Son, Not Their Sons": Mothers Against the Draft for Vietnam -- From Maternal Pacifism to Revolutionary Solidarity: African- American Women's Opposition to the Vietnam War -- Voices of Protest: Women and the GI Antiwar Press -- In the Belly of the Beast: Conscientious Objectors in the Military during the Vietnam War -- Legacies of the 1960s: New Rights and New Lefts -- Notes -- Contributors