ISBN:
0822389517
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0822339730
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0822339897
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9780822389514
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9780822339731
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9780822339892
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 296 p)
,
ill
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Getting Loose : Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s
DDC:
306.30973/09045
Keywords:
Popular culture History 20th century
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Consumption (Economics) Social aspects 20th century
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History
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Nineteen seventies
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Lifestyles History 20th century
;
United States Social conditions 1960-1980
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United States Social life and customs 1971-
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Examines the changing character of American consumer culture in the 1960s, 70s, and late 20th century generally, driven by changing forms of identity, notably a "loosening" of the self, by which Binkley means to evoke a wide range of identity pr
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Mediated Immediacy: Living in the Now; Part I: Middle Class in the Maelstrom; Of Swingers and Organization Men: Loose Modernities; Experts Unbound: Intimate Professionals and the Value of Lifestyle; Book as Tool: Lifestyle Print Culture and the West Coast Publishing Boom; Part II: Caring Texts; Being One: From Knowledge to Consciousness in the Spaceship Society; Loving Each Other: From Phony to Real in the New Togetherness; Letting It All Hang Out: From Mind to Muscle in the Relaxed Body
Description / Table of Contents:
Conclusion: Morning in America: Pulling in the SlackNotes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-285) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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