Contributor
Bloch, Avital H.
Imprint:New York : New York University Press, c2005.
Descriptionviii, 342 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Note:The "astronautrix" and the "magnificent male": Jerrie Cobb's quest to be the first woman in America's manned space program / Margaret A. Weitekamp. - Building utopia: Mary Otis Stevens and the Lincoln, Massachusetts, house / Susana Torre. - Life on the cusp: Lynda Huey and Billie Jean King / James Pipkin. - Balancing act: Ursula Kroeber LeGuin / Zina Petersen. - Ambassadors with hips: Katherine Dunham, Pearl Primus, and the allure of Afirca in the black arts movement / Julia L. Foulkes. - Take everyone to heaven with us: Anne Waldman's poetry cultures / Roxanne Power Hamilton. - Joan Baez: a singer and activist / Avital H. Bloch. - "Ain't no mountain high enough": Diana Ross as American pop-cultural icon of the 1960s / Jaap Kooijman. - The choices before us: Anita m. Caspary and the immaculate heart community / Susan Marie Maloney. - Shaping the sixties: the emergence of Barbara Deming / Judith McDaniel. - Yoko Ono and the unfinished music of "John & Yoko": imagining gender and racial equality in the late 1960s / Tamara Levitz. - "Hanoi Jane" lives: the 1960s legacy of Jane Fonda / Barbara L. Tischler. - "I feel the earth move": Carole King, Tapestry, and the liberated woman / Judy Kutulas. - Sonia Sanchez: "Fearless about the world" / Michelle Nzadi Keita. - A beacon for the people: the sixties in Dianne McIntyre / Veta Goler. - Judy Chicago in the 1960s / Gail Levin.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
