"Make Love, Not War is must reading for sex educators, counselors, and therapists of the 21st century--many of whom were too young to have experienced the 1960's and 1970's themselves." -- Alice Laddas Journal of SexEducation and Therapy "David Allyn's brisk history of the sexual revolution in America deserves a wide readership and considerable praise." -- American Historical Review "Filled with fresh details, this is a strong debut from a gifted young cultural critic." -- Elaine Showalter "Allyn has done a remarkable job of bringing together all the diverse strands of the sexual revolution -- from the principled and political to the purely hedonistic and outright kooky." -- Barbara Ehrenreich "A useful and readable chronicle of the melange of activity and talk that changed American irreversibly." -- Todd Gitlin, Chicago Tribune "Entertaining. A very readable and intelligent analysis of an often oversimplified era." -- Entertainment Weekly "No other book gathers together this array of material.Allyn fascinatingly integrates hitherto unconnected figures.useful and readable. The New YorkTimes Book Review." "One must admire the wealth of detail and documented anecdotes that fuel his steamy narrative." -- The NewYorker
Introduction 1. Single Girls, Double Standards 2. Beatniks and Bathing Suits 3. The Pill: A Prescription for Equality 4. Love the One You're With 5. Obscenity on Trial 6. Strangers in a Strange Land: The Harrad Experiment and Group Marriage 7. The Right to Marry: Loving vs. Virginia 8. In Loco Parentis 9. Strange Bedfellows: Christian Clergy and the Sexual Revolution 10. Performing the Revolution 11. Sticky Fingers 12. Gay Liberation 13. The Golden Age of Sexual Science 14. Medicine and Morality 15. Why Do These Words Sound Nasty? 16. (Id)eology: Herbert Marcuse, Norman O. Brown, and Fritz Perls 17. No Privacy Please: Group Sex in the Seventies 18. The Joy of Sales: The Commercialization of Sexual Freedom 19. Lesbian Liberation: Equal but Separate 20. Sexual Freedom on Demand 21. Counterrevolution and Crisis Epilogue Notes Selected Bibliography Index but Separate
David Allyn has a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught history at Princeton. He is now a journalist and writer, and his articles have appeared in the Washington Post,The Boston Globe and The New York Daily News, and the Journal of American Studies. He lives in Hoboken, New Jersey.