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Title: Sex in the Heartland by Beth Bailey ISBN: 0-674-00974-6 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: very smart and accessible book about an important topic
Comment: This is a very accessible, well-written book which at the same time provides a complex analysis of American's changing attitudes and assumptions regarding sexual practices. While focusing on Lawrence, Kansas, (very useful for understanding how individuals and institutions reacted within a specific context), it says much about the country as a whole. It is refreshingly forthright without being unnecessarily salacious. And it manages to inform without taking all the fun out of the topic-quite a balancing act!
Rating: 3
Summary: Sex in the Heartland, or Horny in Lawrence
Comment: Having attended KU during the sexual revolution I really looked forward to reading this book. It is interesting to read about events you actually got to attend and to read about persons you knew at college. The writer has done a masterful job of research and certainly the book was entertaining, yet it does not capture what was going on. Young people want to have sex, and they will have sex as long as it is reasonably possible. The reason there seemed to be a sexual revolution in Lawrence at the end of the 1960s was because there were now so many more college students there. This fact, more than anything else, was the moving force behind the "revolution." As I remember college, it was a time of poverty, too much work, being away from home the first time, and loneliness and isolation. Perhaps in the fantasy world of the mass media all college students were having sex, but in the real world most of us were just trying to survive. There is sexual behavior going on everywhere, and there will be sexual behavior as long as we are human beings. But in Kansas many boys lose their virginity in whore houses in Junction City Kansas. Others utilize barnyard animals. (Sheep are best.) The fact that this dirty business is kept quiet does not mean that it does not occur. The presense of many homosexuals at KU could indicate the occurrance of a sexual revolution. It could also just as well indicate that the state itself is so repressive they flock to Lawrence for a chance to be free. I don't think the author understood this and I do not think that the book is all that intellectually significant. The kids who came up to Lawrence in 1968 and began having sex there would have been having sex had they come up in 1938. Similarly those who couldn't get laid in the 1960s would have done without at any time. Additionally the gay fringe and the counterculture were simply not representative of the student body and to compare or even discuss the two groups is to compare oranges with frogs.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent history of sex in flyover country
Comment: The sexual revolution didn't just happen in New York and San Francisco, and this book tell the story of how the sexual revolution came to the liberal college town of Lawrence, KS.
This book has a lot of fascinating stories, such as the history of birth control in Lawrence, the story of the town's attempt to "protect" itself from 10,000 sex-crazed young men working the nearby arms factory during WWII, and the history of gay liberation in the area.
Anyone interested in sexual/cultural politics and social issue will really enjoy this one.
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Title: Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 by George Chauncey ISBN: 0465026214 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Consumers' Republic : The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by LIZABETH COHEN ISBN: 0375707379 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 by Cindy Hahamovitch ISBN: 0807846392 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 by Sarah Deutsch ISBN: 0195158644 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Mixed Harvest: The Second Great Transformation in the Rural North, 1870-1930 (Studies in Rural Culture) by Hal S. Barron ISBN: 0807846597 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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