The Politics of Authenticity : : Countercultures and Radical Movements across the Iron Curtain, 1968-1989 / / ed. by Joachim C. Häberlen, Mark Keck-Szajbel, Kate Mahoney.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Blaylock, Sara,; Bühner, Maria,; Freeland, Jane,; Hayton, Jeff,; Häberlen, Joachim C.,; Idier, Antoine,; Keck-Szajbel, Mark,; Lóránd, Zsófia,; Mahoney, Kate,; Marin, Manuela,; Mariscalco, Danilo,; Möckel, Benjamin,; Smith, Jake P.,; Ventrone, Angelo,; Yörümez, Barış,
• HerausgeberIn: Häberlen, Joachim C.,; Keck-Szajbel, Mark,; Mahoney, Kate,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointment...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Revolution as a Quest for an Authentic Life: The 1960s and 1970s in Italy
• Chapter 2. Authenticity through Transgression: Small Acts of Resentment in Post-1968 Czechoslovakia
• Chapter 3. The Political, Emotional, and Therapeutic: Narratives of Consciousness-Raising and Authenticity in the English Women’s Liberation Movement
• Chapter 4. A Genealogy of a Politics of Subjectivity: Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexuality, and the Radical Left in Post- 1968 France
• Chapter 5. New Feminism, Women’s Subjectivity, and Feminist Politics: Conceptual Transfers and Activist Inspirations in Yugoslavia in the 1970s and 1980s
• Chapter 6 Women’s Bodies and Feminist Subjectivities in West Germany
• Chapter 7. The Rise of a New Consciousness: Lesbian Activism in East Germany in the 1980s
• Chapter 8. The Italian Movement of 1977 and the Cultural Praxis of the Youthful Proletariat
• Chapter 9. The Struggle for the Minds of the Youth: The Securitate and Musical Countercultures in Communist Romania
• Chapter 10. Punk Authenticity: Difference across the Iron Curtain
• Chapter 11. Humanitarianism on Stage: Live Aid and the Origins of Humanitarian Pop Music
• Chapter 12. Embedded Abstractions: Authenticity, Aura, and Abject Domesticity in Hamburg’s Hafenstraße
• Afterword. Concluding Thoughts: Authenticity’s Visual Turn
• Index