women of the sixties counterculture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Lemke-Santangelo, Gretchen
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2009
- Thesaurus
- new age beweging, subculturen, gender, vrouwbeelden, leefvormen, relaties, seksualiteit, arbeid, spiritualiteit, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, 20e eeuw
- Description
- “Hippie women” have alternately been seen as earth mothers or love goddesses, virgins or vamps. Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo corrects the stereotypes by describing how women experienced and shaped the counterculture. She draws on the personal recollections of women who were there—including such pivotal figures as Lenore Kendall, Diane DiPrima, and Carolyn Adams—to gain insight into what made counterculture women tick, how they lived their days, and how they envisioned their lives. She argues that, despite the embrace of traditional roles, counterculture women claimed power by virtue of gender difference and revived an older agrarian ideal that assigned greater value to female productive labor. she also shows how women helped counterculture practices move into the mainstream, helping transform middle-class attitudes toward everything from spirituality to child rearing to the environment. With photos and poster art.