A brilliant, alternative take on sixties swinging London, Jenny
Diski offers radical reconsiderations of the social, political, and
personal meaning of that turbulent era.
What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out,
taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and
spending time in mental hospitals. Now, as Diski herself turns
sixty years old, she examines what has been lost in the purple haze
of nostalgia and selective memory of that era, what endures, and
what has always been the same. From the vantage point of London,
she takes stock of the Sexual Revolution, the fashion, the drug
culture, and the psychiatric movements and education systems of the
day. What she discovers is that the ideas of the sixties often
paved the way for their antithesis, and that by confusing
liberation and libertarianism, a new kind of radicalism would take
over both in the UK and America.
Witty, provocative, and gorgeously written, Jenny Diski promises to
feed your head with new insights about everything that was, and
"is," the sixties.
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