Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization

by Sherryl Kleinman

Book Overview

"Renewal" is a holistic health center run by baby boomers whose political ideals were shaped by the counterculture movements of the 1960s. Through interviews and observation, Sherryl Kleinman takes us inside Renewal and shows us how its members struggled to maintain a view of themselves as progressive and alternative even as they sought conventional legitimacy.

In Opposing Ambitions we meet the members of Renewal as individuals; learn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226440052
• ISBN13: 9780226440057
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.6"