Make Love, Not War
ISBN-13: 978-0-316-03930-6
Writer: David Allyn
Title: Make Love, Not War
Subtitle: The Sexual Revolution: an unfettered history
Place of publication: Boston, New York, London
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year of publication: 2000
Format: 155x241 mm
Pages: xii+381
Illustrations: 18 black and white
Binding: hardbound in colour dust covers designed by Michael Ian Kaye
Jacket photograph: Eric McNattRhonnell M. Adalin
Writer's photo on the inside back cover: David Rodgers
Weight: 665 gr.
Original price: USD 26.95, CAD 37.95
Supplier: Awesome BooksUSA
Order Number: 66807358
Order Shipped: 28th May 2020
Entry Number: 2020007
Entry Date: 24th July 2020
BOOK DESCRIPTION
The invention of the pill, the end of censorship, the advent of feminism, the rise of commercial pornography - dozens of changes to daily lives in the 1960s and 70s stimulated an unprecedented time of sexual openness in American society, a season of optimism and experimentation remembered as the sexual revolution.
Make Love, Not War is the first serious treatment of the complicated events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution forward. Based on firsthand accounts, diaries, interviews, and period research, it traces changes in private lives and public discourse from the fearful '50s to the first tremors of rebellion in the early '60s to the heady heyday of the revolution.
This history tells the stories of the major figures of the period -sexual freedom fighters, feminists, scientists, pornographers, gay activists, First Amendment layers, and others who made the headlines. But it is based equally on the testimony of ordinary people: men and women who dared to take risks in their private lives and share their experiences with others. They yearned for a freer, more open society. Their stories of spouse swapping, swinging, group sex, and other erotic adventures reveal an era in which "the pursuit of happiness: took on new meaning in American life.
Bringing a fresh perspective on the '60s and '70s, author David Allyn argues hat the sexual revolution was a deeply American revolution and reflected a revival of the energetic spirit that gave birth to the nation itself. And it was filled with the contradictions of American life -"spiritual yet secular, idealistic yet commercial, driven by science yet colored by a romantic view of nature'. These tensions ultimately left Americans unequipped to cope with the electrifying social changes of the ra and te organized counter-revolution that brought it to a dramatic close in the mid-70s.
Written with a serious historian's attention to nuance and detail, and with a narrative drive appropriate to such a compelling subject, Make Love, Not War is a thoughtful, engaging and provocative account of one of the most colorful and controversial episodes in American history.
