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Summary:

"Style of dress has always been a way for Americans to signify their politics, but perhaps never so overtly as in the 1960s and 1970s. Whether participating in presidential campaigns or Vietnam protests, hair and dress provided a powerful cultural tool for social activists to display their politics to the world and became both the cause and a symbol of the rift in American culture. Some Americans saw stylistic freedom as part of their larger political protests, integral to the ideals of self-expression, sexual freedom, and equal rights for women and minorities. Others saw changes in style as the erosion of tradition and a threat to the established social and gender norms at the heart of family and nation. Through the lens of fashion and style, Dressing for the Culture Wars guides us through the competing political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Although long hair on men, pants and miniskirts on women, and other hippie styles of self-fashioning could indeed be controversial, Betty Luther Hillman illustrates how self-presentation influenced the culture and politics of the era and carried connotations similarly linked to the broader political challenges of the time. Luther Hillman's new line of inquiry demonstrates how fashion was both a reaction to and was influenced by the political climate and its implications for changing norms of gender, race, and sexuality"--Jacket.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. "You Can't Tell the Girls from the Boys": Changing Styles among American Youths, 1964
• 1968
• 2. "What to Wear to the Revolution": Self-Presentation Politics in Social Movement Activism
• 3. "No Woman Can Be Free Until She Loses Her Femininity": The Politics of Self-Presentation in Feminist Activism
• 4. "Wearing a Dress Is a Revolutionary Act": Political Drag and Self-Presentation in the Gay Liberation Movement
• 5. "Everyone Should Be Accustomed to Seeing Long Hair on Men by Now": Style and Popular Culture in the Late 1960s to 1970s
• 6. "Ours Should Not Be an Effort to Achieve a Unisex Society": Legal Regulations of Personal Presentation in the Workplace.

Author/Creator:

Luther Hillman, Betty

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Dressing for the culture wars: style and the politics of self-presentation in the 1960s and 1970s [by Luther Hillman, B.]

Subjects:

Clothing and dress — Sex differences — United States

Clothing and dress — Social aspects — United States

Fashion — Social aspects — United States

Fashion — United States

Feminism — United States

Sex — United States

Sex role — United States

Clothing and dress

Sex differences

Clothing and dress — Social aspects

Fashion — Social aspects

Fashion

Feminism

Sex

Sex role

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GT605 .H57 2015eb

ISBNs:

9780803284449 (electronic bk.)
0803284446 (electronic bk.)
9780803269750 [Invalid]
0803269757 [Invalid]
9780803284456 [Invalid]
0803284454 [Invalid]
9780803284463 [Invalid]
0803284462 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

918940898

Other Control Numbers:

1053810 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp12625049