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

"Manhood in the Age of Aquarius investigates how a deep commitment to the belief in the naturalness of masculinity shaped the efforts of American hippies to create economic, social, political, institutional, religious, and environmental alternatives to their received culture during the 1960s an...

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Main Author: Hodgdon, Tim
Corporate Authors: American Historical Association, Columbia University. Press
Other title:Masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83.
Gutenberg-e.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : Columbia University Press, [2007]
Series:Gutenberg (e)
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Table of 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.