Young lives on the Left (eBook)

Sixties Activism and the Liberation of the Self

Celia Hughes (Autor)

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2015
336 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-9830-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the coming of age experiences of young men and women who became active in radical Left circles in 1960s England. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, the book follows in depth the stories of approximately twenty individuals to offer a unique perspective of what it meant to be young and on the Left in the post-war landscape. The book will be essential reading for researchers of twentieth-century British social, cultural and political history. However, it will be of interest to a general readership interested in the social protest movements of the long 1960s.

Autor

Celia Hughes is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural British History at the University of Copenhagen

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Post-war childhood and adolescence
2. Youth sub-cultures
3. The student movement and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
4. New Left politics and Women’s Liberation
5. Adulthood and activism in the 1970s
6. Trotskyism and the revolutionary self
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.5.2016
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Far left • Gender • New Left • Oral History • Post-war consensus • Post-war self • Sixties activism • Social Class • Subjectivities • Women’s liberation
• ISBN-10: 0-7190-9830-0 / 0719098300
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-9830-7 / 9780719098307