Manhood in the Age of Aquarius : masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83

Hodgdon, Tim. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780231135443 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0231135440 (hbk.)
ISBN: 9780231509527 (ebk.)
ISBN: 0231509529 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
lii, 225 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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.