Betty Luther Hillman

Dressing for the Culture Wars

Style and the Politics of Self-Presentation in the 1960s and 1970s

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the lens of fashion and style, Dressing for the Culture Wars guides us through the competing political and social movements of the culture war. Betty Luther Hillman illustrates how self-presentation influenced the culture and politics of the era and carried connotations similarly linked to the broader political challenges of the time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780803269750
• ISBN-10: 0803269757
• Artikelnr.: 42651458

Autorenporträt

Betty Luther Hillman teaches history at Phillips Exeter Academy. Her work has appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality and Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
Introduction: The Significance of Style in American Culture and Politics  
 
1. “You Can’t Tell the Girls from the Boys”: Changing Styles among American
Youths, 1964–1968    
2. “What to Wear to the Revolution”: Self-Presentation Politics in Social
Movement Activism    
3. “No Woman Can Be Free . . . Until She Loses Her Femininity”: The
Politics of Self-Presentation in Feminist Activism    
4. “Wearing a Dress Is a Revolutionary Act”: Political Drag and
Self-Presentation in the Gay Liberation Movement    
5. “Everyone Should Be Accustomed to Seeing Long Hair on Men by Now”: Style
and Popular Culture in the Late 1960s to 1970s    
6. “Ours Should Not Be an Effort to Achieve a Unisex Society”: Legal
Regulations of Personal Presentation in the Workplace    
Epilogue: The Politics of Style in Retrospect    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index