Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s

by Lauri Umansky and Lauri Umanky

Book Overview

With Jackie in a pill-box hat and Marilyn crooning to the president, the 1960s opened with women hovering at the fringes of the public imagination--and ended with a feminist movement that outpaced anything NASA could concoct. A compelling story, but did it really happen that way?
Unlike many accounts of the era, Impossible to Hold revels in the complexities of female identity and American culture. The collection's sixteen original essays...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814799108
• ISBN13: 9780814799109
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"