Growing Up

Sex in the Sixties

Peter Doggett

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English

The Bodley Head Ltd
17 November 2021

British & Irish history; Social & cultural history; Cultural studies; Popular culture; Sociology: sexual relations

Was the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.

Was the 1960s really that great time of liberation, joyful experimentation and celebration of youth? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.

No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. For some it was a time when music, fashion and drugs enabled young people to express their individuality and freedom, their hopes and dreams of a different, perhaps better, world. For others, the decade marked the advent of the permissive society, with its undermining of authority, family values and common decency. At the heart of this continuing controversy is sex.

For this wide-ranging and eye-opening survey of the sexual landscape of the 1960s Peter Doggett has assembled a dozen little-known stories that reveal how the sexual revolution transformed people's lives. Growing Up provides an honest, often disturbing portrait of a constant battle between two forces- the urge to free the body from guilt and restraint; and the desire to control, cannibalise and exploit that liberation for profit or pleasure. It is a battle that divides opinion to this day.

By: Peter Doggett
Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 775g
ISBN: 9781847924285
ISBN 10: 184792428X
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 17 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Doggett has been writing about popular music and social and cultural history for more than thirty years. His books include the acclaimed Electric Shock From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music, There's a Riot Going On- Revolutionaries, Rock Stars and the Rise and Fall of '60's Counter-culture and The Man Who Sold the World- David Bowie and the 1970s.

Reviews for Growing Up: Sex in the Sixties

'The case to rethink our assumptions about the period is one Doggett makes with verve and controlled passion ... An excellent book' -- David Aaronovitch, The Times *Book of the Week*