Make Love, Not War

When 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.

Autorentext

David 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.

Zusammenfassung
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inhalt

Introduction 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 Separate