"Sex in the Heartland" is the story of the sexual revolution in a
small university town in the quintessential heartland state of
Kansas. Bypassing the oft-told tales of radicals and
revolutionaries on either coast, Beth Bailey argues that the
revolution was forged in towns and cities alike, as "ordinary"
people struggled over the boundaries of public and private sexual
behavior in postwar America.
Bailey fundamentally challenges contemporary perceptions of the
revolution as simply a triumph of free love and gay lib. Rather,
she explores the long-term and mainstream changes in American
society, beginning in the economic and social dislocations of World
War II and the explosion of mass media and communication, which
aided and abetted the sexual upheaval of the 1960s. Focusing on
Lawrence, Kansas, we discover the intricacies and depth of a
transformation that was nurtured at the grass roots.
Americans used the concept of revolution to make sense of
social and sexual changes as they lived through them. Everything
from the birth control pill and counterculture to Civil Rights, was
conflated into "the revolution," an accessible but deceptive
simplification, too easy to both glorify and vilify. Bailey
untangles the radically different origins, intentions, and outcomes
of these events to help us understand their roles and meanings for
sex in contemporary America. She argues that the sexual revolution
challenged and partially overturned a system of sexual controls
based on oppression, inequality, and exploitation, and created new
models of sex and gender relations that have shaped our society in
powerful and positive ways.
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