![]() Katha Pollitt The Nation essays on social change. No one has done more to place the era in context-its own and ours. ISBN: 9 781860 497285 BINDING: Hardback CONDITION: Good PUBLISHED: 1999, First edition DESCRIPTION: Alice Echols Scars of sweet paradise : the life and. ![]() Los Angeles Times Alice Echols makes brilliant, fresh, original sense of the contradictory Sixties-the music, the politics, the people. Echols mines unusual spaces-the hidden compartments of sexual ambiguity, the sweaty floors of discotheques-to trace the far-reaching reverberations of post-'60's social movements. Women's Review of Books This collection is compelling when Echols mines unusual spaces-the hidden compartments of sexual ambiguity, the sweaty floors of disco-theques-to trace the far-reaching reverberations of post-'60s social movements. Janis Joplin was the skyrocket chick of the sixties, the woman who broke into the boys club of rock and out of the stifling good-girl femininity of postwar. ![]() Much more than a rehashing of old work, Shaky Ground blends the familiar with the little known, injects some wry bits of personal and intellectual autobiography, and through the judicious selection and positioning of essays, delivers a work that is more than the sum of its parts. Buy a cheap copy of Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and. ![]()
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