Young lives on the left : sixties activism and the liberation of the self

Young lives on the left : sixties activism and the liberation of the self / Celia Hughes.

'Young Lives on the Left' is a unique social history of the individual lives of men and women who came of age in radical left circles in the 1960s. Based on a rich collection of oral history interviews, it follows approximately 20 individuals, tracing the experience of activist self-making...

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Main Author: Hughes, Celia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Nineteen sixties.
Social movements > England > History > 20th century.
Radicalism > England > History > 20th century.
Right and left (Political science)
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism.
Nineteen sixties
Radicalism
Social movements
Aktivismus
Linksradikalismus
Protestbewegung
Great Britain > History > 20th century.
England
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Post-war childhood and adolescence
  • 2. Youth subcultures
  • 3. The student movement and the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
  • 4. New Left politics and Women's Liberation
  • 5. Adulthood and activism in the 1970s
  • 6. Trotskyism and the revolutionary self.

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