{"product_id":"9780674020399","title":"Sex in the Heartland","description":"\u003ci\u003eSex in the Heartland\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of the sexual revolution in a small university town in the quintessential heartland state of Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and revolutionaries on either coast, Beth Bailey argues that the revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as \"ordinary\" people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual behavior in postwar America. \u003cp\u003e Bailey fundamentally challenges contemporary perceptions of the revolution as simply a triumph of free love and gay lib. Rather, she explores the long-term and mainstream changes in American society, beginning in the economic and social dislocations of World War II and the explosion of mass media and communication, which aided and abetted the sexual upheaval of the 1960s. Focusing on Lawrence, Kansas, we discover the intricacies and depth of a transformation that was nurtured at the grass roots. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Americans used the concept of revolution to make sense of social and sexual changes as they lived through them. Everything from the birth control pill and counterculture to Civil Rights, was conflated into \"the revolution,\" an accessible but deceptive simplification, too easy to both glorify and vilify. Bailey untangles the radically different origins, intentions, and outcomes of these events to help us understand their roles and meanings for sex in contemporary America. She argues that the sexual revolution challenged and partially overturned a system of sexual controls based on oppression, inequality, and exploitation, and created new models of sex and gender relations that have shaped our society in powerful and positive ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents: \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Before the Revolution\u003cbr\u003e Sex and the Therapeutic Culture\u003cbr\u003e Responsible Sex\u003cbr\u003e Prescribing the Pill\u003cbr\u003e Revolutionary Intent\u003cbr\u003e Sex as a Weapon\u003cbr\u003e Sex and Liberation\u003cbr\u003e Remaking Sex \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Epilogue \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003e[A] vivid reminder of just how national and chaotic the events we call 'the sixties' really were...Bailey's exploration of the sexual revolution offers a subtler sense of the underlying forces of that era, which unified even while dividing a nation and, ultimately, the world.\u003cbr\u003e--Tom Engelhardt, The Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003e[Beth Bailey's] applied research here is interesting, imaginative and compassionate, and the final treat is that Bailey is a very good writer. Sex in the Heartland is simply a fascinating read. I'm sorry I can't call her up and congratulate her on this book in person...[This book is] beautifully shaped, carefully thought out, a treasury of useful information.\u003cbr\u003e--Carolyn See, Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003eOne of the great strengths of this book is Bailey's ability to make local characters, institutions and fights vital and compelling, all the while keeping an eye on the broader issues at stake. She gives us a vivid portrait of one university town in transition and a case study for U.S. social history. A cast of local characters comes alive...Virtually every chapter has surprising, subtle turns in which Bailey's thesis of historical paradox and unintended consequences is amply demonstrated.\u003cbr\u003e--Maureen McLane, Chicago Tribune\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003ePublished by the prestigious Harvard University Press, the book suggests that out-of-the-mainstream states such as Kansas actually were on the cutting edge of the nation's sexual revolution during the early 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e--Matt Moline, Capital-Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003e\"[Bailey] points out that those who claim the radical nature of the [sexual] revolution may be surprised by just how deep-seated and mainstream the origins of many of those revolutionary changes were.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Philip Godwin, M.D., Journal-World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews of this book: \u003cbr\u003e\"Bailey examines the 20th-century 'sexual revolution' as it played out in the midwestern college town of Lawrence, Kansas...Bailey is especially perceptive on the ambivalent and conflicted relationship of both the feminist and gay rights movements to the sexual revolution. She also has strong sections on the birth control pill and other moremundane but long-lasting changes in American sexual culture...[A] fascinating and impressive book.\"\u003cbr\u003e--K. Blaser, Choice\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183334047984,"sku":"9780674020399","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780674020399","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}