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Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: masculinity in two countercultural communities, 1965-83

Tim Hodgdon
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  • Contents

  • Related Titles

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright and Permissions
  • List of Illustrations
  • Dedication
  • Epigraph
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Abbrevations
  • Introduction With Flowers in Their Hair?: Remembering Countercultural Masculinity
    • [Intro]
    • Braves, White Knights, and Outlaws at the Human Be-In
    • Setting Hip Manhood in Historical Context
      • Hippies and the Postwar “Crisis of Masculinity”
      • The Counterculture and the American Tradition of Cultural Radicalism
    • The Counterculture and Twentieth-Century American Radicalism
      • [Intro]
      • The Counterculture, the 1960s, and the New Deal Order
      • Countercultural Heterogeneity and Hip Masculinity
    • Connell's Critical-Realist Theory of Gender
  • Part 1 “Style, Guile, Balls, Imagination, and Autonomy”: The Anarchist Masculinity of the Diggers and Free Families
    • Chapter 1 Origins: The Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and Hip Identity
      • [Intro]
      • The Coalescence of the Diggers
      • Getting Together in the Haight-Ashbury
        • [Intro]
        • The Counterculture and Social Change
      • Life-Acting: Agenda and Forms
        • “Food as Medium”
        • “Property of the Possessed”: The Free Stores
      • Life-Acts in the Streets
      • The Summer of Love
      • The Free Diaspora: The Free City Collective and the Free Families
    • Chapter 2 Personal Heaviness: Defining and Defending Countercultural Masculinity in the Haight-Ashbury
      • [Intro]
      • The Diggers and the Postwar “Crisis of Masculinity”
      • Defying Their Fathers: Digger Opposition to Straight Manhood
      • The Repudiation of Whiteness
        • “White Negro” Anarchists
        • “So Much to Manhood”: The Tribal Mystique
      • Digger Virility versus Flower-Child Pacifism
        • [Intro]
        • The Manhood Act
        • The Manhood Act as Digger Weapon
      • The Limits of Rivalry
    • Chapter 3 Brothers and Rivals, Stud Peacocks and Earth Mothers: Gender Relations among the Digger Heavies
      • [Intro]
      • Brothers and Rivals
      • Stud Peacocks and Earth Mothers
        • [Intro]
        • A Hip-Anarchist Model of Gender
        • The “Free” Sexual Division of Labor
        • “She's Not Property”: The Digger “Sexual Revolution”
      • Outlaw Manhood and Male Supremacy
      • Freedom and Limits
  • Part 2 “We Be Yogis and Yoginis Together in Our Families”: Tantric Masculinity on The Farm
    • Chapter 4 “I Used to Believe in Hemingway”: The Self-Making of a Haight-Ashbury Spiritual Teacher
      • [Intro]
      • Spiritual Novitiate
        • [Intro]
        • Encountering Psychedelics
        • Manhood among the Magicians
        • Headman of a Hashburian “Tribe”
        • “Our Tribe Don't Do That”
      • Preaching to the Haight-Ashbury: The Monday Night Class
        • [Intro]
        • The Gendered Foundations of Gaskin's Teaching
        • The Holy Man and His Fellow Pilgrims
      • The Caravan: From “Village” to Community
      • “Getting into It with the Dirt”: In Search of a Farm
    • Chapter 5 “We Here Work as Hard as We Can”: The Farm's Sexual Division of Labor
      • [Intro]
      • Relations with the Local Community
      • Population and Infrastructure
      • Finances and Governance
      • The Sexual Division of Labor
        • [Intro]
        • Manhood and Labor
        • The Reproductive Labor of Men and Boys
        • Women's Labor
        • Motherhood and Administration
        • Midwifery: High-Status Labor
      • Pronatalism: “Unassailable and Sacrosanct”
    • Chapter 6 “Like a Good Horse Follows a Rider”: Shaping Tantric Manhood in Marriage, Sexuality, and Childbirth
      • [Intro]
      • “There Was Great Incentive to Get Married”
      • Sexuality and Contraception
      • The Authority of Midwives
        • [Intro]
        • Discipline of Husbands
        • Disciplining Women
      • The Farm and Radical Feminism
      • The Intimidated Ladies' Meeting
      • The Next-Best Time Is Today
      • The Changeover
      • Inventing a New Plot
  • Notes
    • Preface
    • Introduction With Flowers in Their Hair?: Remembering Countercultural Masculinity
    • Chapter 1 Origins: The Diggers, the Haight-Ashbury, and Hip Identity
    • Chapter 2 Personal Heaviness: Defining and Defending Countercultural Masculinity in the Haight-Ashbury
    • Chapter 3 Brothers and Rivals, Stud Peacocks and Earth Mothers: Gender Relations among the Digger Heavies
    • Chapter 4 “I Used to Believe in Hemingway”: The Self-Making of a Haight-Ashbury Spiritual Teacher
    • Chapter 5 “We Here Work as Hard as We Can”: The Farm's Sexual Division of Labor
    • Chapter 6 “Like a Good Horse Follows a Rider”: Shaping Tantric Manhood in Marriage, Sexuality, and Childbirth
  • Bibliography
    • Archival Collections and Other Unpublished Primary Sources
    • Published Works, Dissertations, and Theses
  • Index
  • About the Author
Related Titles
HEB IdTitleAuthorsPublication Information
Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960's and 70's. Brownstein, Peter, and William Doyle. London: Routledge, 2002.
Masculinities. Connell, Robert W. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995.
heb08314.0001.001 The 60's Communes: Hippies and Beyond. Miller, Timothy. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1999.
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in America. Verysey, Laurence R. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1973.
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
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  • 9780231509527 (ebook)
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Credit: Photograph by Gene Anthony, © Bill Graham Archives LLC Wolfgang's Vault

Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 17

Street scene in the Haight-Ashbury, perhaps 1967 Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 17

Credit: Photograph by Gene Anthony, © Bill Graham Archives LLC Wolfgang's Vault

Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 139

The Death of Money and the Rebirth of the Haight, 17 December 1966 Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 139

Credit: Photograph by Gene Anthony, © Bill Graham Archives LLC Wolfgang's Vault

Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 34

Two Diggers delivering a kettle of stew to Golden Gate Park Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 34

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Credit: Photograph by Gene Anthony, © Bill Graham Archives LLC Wolfgang's Vault

Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 58

Allen Cohen Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 58

Credit: Photograph by Gene Anthony, © Bill Graham Archives LLC Wolfgang's Vault

Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 167

The Human Be-In, 14 January 1967 Source: Gene Anthony, The Summer of Love: Haight-Ashbury at Its Highest (Milbrae, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1980), 167

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