Camp Sites: Sex, Politics, and Academic Style in Postwar America

by Michael Trask

Book Overview

Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site for "doing politics," and both exiled homosexuality from the political ideals each group favored. Liberals, who advanced a politics of style over substance,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804784418
• ISBN13: 9780804784412
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"