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1 online resource. |
| Series |
Women, gender, and sexuality in American history |
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Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Searching for Identity; Chapter 1. A New-Age Search for Order; Chapter 2. Looking for a Few Good Men: The Transformation of Manhood; Chapter 3. Standing By Their Men: What Promise Keeper and Million Man March Women Wanted; Chapter 4. The Fierce Urgency of Unity: The Advent of Post-Blackness; Chapter 5. Things Fall Apart; the LGBT Center Holds; Chapter 6. Guns and Motherhood: A Millennial Maternalism; Epilogue: Reflections on Marches, Identity, Intersectionality, and Postmodernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Remembered as an era of peace and prosperity, turn-of-the-millennium America was also a time of mass protest. But the political demands of the marchers seemed secondary to an urgent desire for renewal and restoration felt by people from all walks of life. Drawing on thousands of personal testimonies, Deborah Gray White explores how Americans sought better ways of living in, and dealing with, a rapidly changing world. From the Million Man, Million Woman, and Million Mom Marches to the Promise Keepers and LGBT protests, White reveals a people lost in their own country. Mass gatherings offered a chance to bond with like-minded others against a relentless tide of loneliness and isolation. By participating, individuals opened a door to self-discovery that energized their quests for order, autonomy, personal meaning, and fellowship in a society that seemed hostile to such deeper human needs. Moving forward in time, White also shows what marchers found out about themselves and those gathered around them. The result is an eye-opening reconsideration of a defining time in contemporary America. -- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription History Reference Center Collection |
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Group identity -- United States.
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Social movements -- United States.
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Social action -- United States.
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Political activists -- United States.
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Social reformers -- United States.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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HISTORY -- General.
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Group identity. (OCoLC)fst00948442
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Political activists. (OCoLC)fst01069192
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Social action. (OCoLC)fst01122251
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Social movements. (OCoLC)fst01122657
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Social reformers. (OCoLC)fst01122841
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Other Form: |
Print version: White, Deborah G. (Deborah Gray), 1949- Lost in the USA. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2017 9780252040900 (DLC) 2016044849 |
| ISBN |
9780252099403 (ebook) |
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0252099400 |
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9780252040900 (cloth ;) (alk. paper) |
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