The fifties : an underground history
(2022)
By:
Gaines, James R.
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.92/GAINES,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2022]
DESCRIPTION
266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781439101636, 1439101639
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
"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"--