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Impossible to Hold

Women and Culture in the 1960s
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With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination--and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way? Unlike many accounts of the era, Impossible to Hold revels in the complexities of female identity and American culture. The collection's sixteen original essays move beyond conventional discussions of hippie chicks and Weatherwomen to examine the diverse lives of women who helped to shape religion, sports, literature, and music, among other aspects of the cultural hodgepodge known as the sixties. From familiar names like Yoko Ono, Carole King, and Joan Baez to lesser-known figures like Anita Caspary and Barbara Deming, the women revealed in Impossible to Hold represent a variety of points on the celebrity and feminist spectrums. The book traces women who sought to break into "male" fields, women whose personae and work link the radical sixties to earlier cultural traditions, and those who consciously confronted power structures and demanded change. Separately and together, their cultural work informed the sixties and their biographies offer a lucid and complex picture of that proverbial "long decade."
Introduction Part I Break1 The "Astronautrix" and the "Magni?cent Male": Jerrie Cobb's Quest to Be the First Woman in America's Manned Space Program Margaret A. Weitekamp2 Building Utopia: Mary Otis Stevens and the Lincoln, Massachusetts, House Susana Torre3 Life on the Cusp: Lynda Huey and Billie Jean King James Pipkin4 Balancing Act: Ursula Kroeber Le Guin Zina PetersenPart II Bridge5 Ambassadors with Hips: Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and the Allure of Africa in the Black Arts Movement Julia L. Foulkes6 Take Everyone to Heaven with Us: Anne Waldman's Poetry Cultures Roxanne Power Hamilton7 Joan Baez: A Singer and Activist Avital H. Bloch
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