| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s. Ed. by Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky. (New York: New York University Press, 2005. viii, 342 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-8147-9909-4. Paper, $22.00, ISBN 0-8147-9910-8.)
Any discussion of women in the 1960s tends to conjure up visions of hippie chicks or bra-burning women's libbers in the minds of many of today's students. In an effort to bring some reality to this subject, Avital H. Bloch and Lauri Umansky have collected an eclectic series of essays about women in the 1960s who break, bridge, confront, and connect cultural themes from the 1950s to the 1970s in diverse and surprising ways. Some of the subjects discussed here would call themselves feminists, but others would not, and, while some are countercultural, none could be classified as hippie chicks.	1
Bloch and Umansky explain the origins and organization of the book in the introduction. While men may have dominated the antiwar and civil rights movements that characterize that decade (a point that some feminist scholars might argue with, by the way), women have proven to be equally significant in shaping the larger cultural legacy of the 1960s. The subjects of these essays have been divided into four categories: those who broke into typically male-dominated fields (astronauts, architects, athletes, science fiction writers); those who built bridges between earlier moderate and later radical cultural movements (beat poetry, folk and popular music, dance); those who confronted hegemonic power structures (the church, the antiwar movement, rock and roll); and, finally, those who connected cultural expressions (music, art, dance, and literature) of the 1960s in an explicitly gendered way.	. . .

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