ABSTRACT

Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures.

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Historicizing the American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s

part |54 pages

Deconditioning

chapter |24 pages

The Intoxicated State/Illegal nation

Drugs in the Sixties Counterculture

chapter |28 pages

From "Consciousness Expansion" to "Consciousness Raising"

Feminism and the Countercultural Politics of the Self

part |88 pages

Cultural Politics

chapter |27 pages

Staging the Revolution

Guerrilla Theater as a Countercultural Practice, 1965-68

chapter |26 pages

"The Revolution is about Our Lives"

The New Left's Counterculture

part |84 pages

Identity

chapter |26 pages

Voodoo Child

Jimi Tendrix and the Politics of Race in the Sixties

chapter |26 pages

Gay Gatherings

Reimagining the Counterculture

part |84 pages

Pop Culture and Mass Media

chapter |31 pages

Forever Young

Insurgent Youth and the Sixties Culture of Rejuvenation

chapter |29 pages

"The Movies are a Revolution"

Film and the Counterculture 1

chapter |20 pages

Sex as a Weapon

Underground Comix and the Paradox of Liberation

part |54 pages

Alternative Visions

chapter |26 pages

"Machines of Loving Grace"

Alternative Technology, Environment, and the Counterculture