Postmodern America : a new democratic order in the second gilded age / Van Gosse -- Was it the end or just a beginning? American storytelling and the history of the sixties / Richard Moser -- Beyond declension : feminist radicalism in the 1970s and 1980s / Sara M. Evans -- The land belongs to the people : reframing urban protest in post-sixties Philadelphia / Andrew Feffer -- Unpacking the Vietnam syndrome : the coup in Chile and the rise of popular anti-interventionism / Van Gosse -- The movement inside : BBS films and the cultural left in the new Hollywood / Andrew Schroeder -- In the name of austerity : middle-class consumption and the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-1974 / Natasha Zaretsky -- Taking over domestic space : the battered women's movement and public protest / Anne Enke -- Fabulous politics : gay, lesbian, and queer movements, 1969-1999 / Jeffrey Escoffier -- A very American epidemic : memory politics and identity poltics in the AIDS memorial quilt, 1985-1993 / Christopher Capozzola -- Holding the rock : the "indianization" of Alcatraz Island, 1969-1999 / Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo -- Out of labor's dark age : sexual politics comes to the workplace / Kitty Krupat -- Autoworkers at Lordstown : workplace democracy and American citizenship / Richard Moser -- Cartoon politics : the case of the purloined parents / James Livingston -- At the end of the century / Eliot Katz
Summary
How can we make sense of the fact that after decades of right-wing political mobilizing the major social changes wrought by the Sixties are more than ever part of American life? The World the Sixties Made, the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago. They trace the ways in which recent U.S. culture and politics continue to be shaped by th
