Manhood in the Age of Aquarius : masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83 / by Tim Hodgdon.
- Hodgdon, Tim
- Date:
- 2009, ©2007
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Publication/Creation
New York : Columbia University Press, 2009, ©2007.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book electronic edition.
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliography.
Funding information
This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Notes
Caption title ; description based on screen of 2009-10-06.
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Contents
"Style, guile, balls, imagination, and autonomy" : the anarchist masculinity of the Diggers and Free Families -- Origins : the Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and hip identity -- Personal heaviness : defining and defending countercultural masculinity in the Haight-Ashbury -- Brothers and rivals, stud peacocks and earth mothers : gender relations among the Digger heavies -- We be yogis and yoginis together in our families : tantric masculinity on the Farm -- I used to believe in Hemingway : the self-making of a Haight-Ashbury spiritual teacher -- "We here work as hard as we can" : the Farm's sexual division of labor -- "Like a good horse follows a rider" : shaping tantric manhood in marriage, sexuality, and childbirth.
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- MasculinitySocial aspectsUnited StatesCase studies
- CountercultureCaliforniaSan FranciscoHistory20th century
- CountercultureTennesseeHistory20th century
- HippiesUnited StatesInterviews
- Communal livingTennesseeHistory20th century
- FarmsTennesseeHistory20th century
- Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.)Social life and customs20th century
- San Francisco (Calif.)Social life and customs20th century
- TennesseeSocial life and customs20th century
- Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)