Daughters of Aquarius: Women of the Sixties Counterculture

by Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo and Gretchen Lemke-Santagelo

Book Overview

It was a sign of the sixties. Drawn by the promise of spiritual and creative freedom, thousands of women from white middle-class homes rejected the suburban domesticity of their mothers to adopt lifestyles more like those of their great-grandmothers. They eagerly learned "new" skills, from composting to quilting, as they took up the decade's quest for self-realization.

"Hippie women" have alternately been seen as earth mothers or love goddesses,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700616330
• ISBN13: 9780700616336
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"