Sex in the Heartland
In this very informative book, which takes the reader through the turbulent 1960s, Bailey (American studies, Univ. of New Mexico) provides a great deal of support for her premise that the "sexual revolution" was not really a revolution but an evolutionary process, a series of struggles for freedom waged by a large number of those facing discrimination. Concentrating her study on the college town of Lawrence, KSAa location far removed from either coast and therefore offering a more realistic view of the countryAshe surveys the primary shifts of this "revolution," which involved premarital sex, homosexual identity, birth control, drug use, and gender issues. Bailey does not limit her descriptions to Lawrence, using it instead as a lens and going farther afield to describe the news and events that gripped the entire nation (such as the anti-war, hippie, and feminist movements). Recommended for academic libraries.ATim Delaney, Canisius Coll., Buffalo, NYCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.