Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83 / Tim Hodgdon. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hodgdon, Tim.

Series:

Gutenberg (e)

[Gutenberg (e)]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.)--History.

Diggers (San Francisco, Calif.).

Masculinity--Social aspects--United States--Case studies.

Masculinity.

Counterculture--California--San Francisco--History--20th century.

Counterculture.

Counterculture--Tennessee--History--20th century.

Hippies--United States--Interviews.

Hippies.

Communal living--Tennessee--History--20th century.

Communal living.

Farms--Tennessee--History--20th century.

Farms.

Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.).

San Francisco (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

San Francisco (Calif.).

Tennessee--Social life and customs--20th century.

Tennessee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lii, 225 p. )

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Contents:

"Style, guile, balls, imagination, and autonomy" : the anarchist masculinity of the Diggers and Free Families

Origins : the Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and hip identity

Personal heaviness : defining and defending countercultural masculinity in the Haight-Ashbury

Brothers and rivals, stud peacocks, and earth mothers : gender relations among the Digger heavies

"We be yogis and yoginis together in our families" : tantric masculinity on the Farm

"I used to believe in Hemingway" : the self-making of a Haight-Ashbury spiritual teacher

"We here work as hard as we can" : the Farm's sexual division of labor

"Like a good horse follows a rider" : shaping tantric manhood in marriage, sexuality, and childbirth.

Notes:

Series statement from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-225).

ISBN:

0-231-13544-0