By Jerry Rodnitzky
The upward thrust and fall of feminist counterculture is traced via feminism's liberation of well known media reminiscent of track, cinema, and tv and offers photographs of personalities as countercultural versions. additionally, the decline of feminism after 1980 is explored.
The e-book starts via suggesting appropriate countercultural difficulties and screw ups all through American historical past to supply a wide historic viewpoint. It additionally describes how the recent Left countercultural pressure motivated the women's liberation flow. person chapters specialize in how feminists used song as a counterculture and the way they tried to disencumber media reminiscent of cinema, tv, and ads. Cultural snap shots of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Gloria Steinem recommend how person girls should be powerful countercultural types. The ebook examines the decline of feminism on the grounds that 1980 and hyperlinks that decline to the autumn of feminist counterculture. Feminists of the Sixties repeating the historical past of the Nineteen Twenties, whilst feminists received the vote, yet then misplaced the following new release. modern feminists made many financial and political earnings, yet back misplaced the subsequent iteration of ladies. regardless of this loss, the publication concentrates totally on the confident and predicts that countercultural feminism will upward thrust phoenix-like right into a new destiny, feminist era.
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