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Record Nr.

UNISA996216701103316

Autore

Hodgdon Tim

Titolo

Manhood in the Age of Aquarius : masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83 / / Tim Hodgdon [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-231-13544-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (lii, 225 p. )

Collana

[Gutenberg (e)]

Disciplina

155.3/32

Soggetti

Masculinity - Social aspects - United States

Counterculture - California - San Francisco - History - 20th century

Counterculture - Tennessee - History - 20th century

Hippies - United States

Communal living - Tennessee - History - 20th century

Farms - Tennessee - History - 20th century

Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) Social life and customs 20th century

San Francisco (Calif.) Social life and customs 20th century

Tennessee Social life and customs 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Series statement from jacket.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-225).

Nota di contenuto

"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.