The Fifties
An Underground History
New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description: xix, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
"A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: Seeing in the dark -- Gay rights: "To be nobody but yourself" -- Feminism: "Meet Jane Crow" -- Civil rights: The war after the wars -- Ecology: Before we knew -- Epilogue: The best of us.
Subjects:
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century.
Nineteen fifties.
Gay rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Social movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Counterculture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Progressivism (United States politics) -- History -- 20th century.
Nineteen fifties.
Gay rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Environmentalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
History -- 20th century.
United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781439101636
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HISTORY North Am. US Modern Gai | Cooper (Forest Acres) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.