Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'roll

[Paul Nightingale]

That's what happens when you do a rushed search. I hadn't noticed that
Luckett & Radner are editors, so thanks for pointing that out. The essay in
question is Leerom Medovoi's "A Yippie-Panther Pipe Dream
Rethinking Sex, Race, and the Sexual Revolution" (133-178)

It begins:

"It is often recognized that during the late 1960s, revolution bore both a
political and a sexual valence. The term referred not only to New Left
ambitions of toppling the state, but also to the countercultural overthrow
of traditional sexual mores. Moreover, these two revolutionary aspirations
bore some sort of historical relationship to one another that has yet to be
adequately explained. We know that political activists talked about
'liberating the people,' and that in a different but related way, so did
hippies and counterculture gurus. One might say, using the terms of Ernesto
Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, that the late sixties were marked by the mutual
articulation of radical sexual and political discourse, so much so that this
'logic of equivalence' briefly achieved between sex and politics remains one
of our most compelling historical memories of those years."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
> Behalf Of Dave Monroe
> Sent: 19 August 2006 18:22
> To: Paul Nightingale; pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Sex, Drugs & Rock'n'roll
> 
> Dammit, I have that anthology, but hadn't read that
> essay.  That Girl, the Avengers, yes, but ...
> 
> --- Paul Nightingale <isread at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > Moya Luckett & Hilary Radner (1999) Swinging Single:
> > Representing Sexuality in the 1960s ...
> 
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