I feel the earth move : redefining love and sex -- The look I want to know better : style and the new man -- You're gonna make it after all : the Mary Tyler Moore Show helps redefine family -- Different strokes for different folks : roots, family, and history -- Obviously queer : gay-themed television, the remaking of sexual identity, and the family-values backlash -- Don't drink the Kool-Aid : the Jonestown tragedy, the press, and the new American sensibility -- Conclusions : free to be, you and me.
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In this work, Judy Kutulas complicates the common view that the 1970s were a time of counterrevolution against the radical activities and attitudes of the previous decade. Instead, Kutulas argues that the experiences and attitudes that were radical in the 1960s were becoming part of mainstream culture in the 1970s, as sexual freedom, gender equality, and more complex notions of identity, work, and family were normalized through popular culture - television, movies, music, political causes, and the emergence of new communities. Seemingly mundane things like watching 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', listening to Carole King songs, donning Birkenstock sandals, or reading 'Roots' were actually critical in shaping Americans' perceptions of themselves, their families, and their relation to authority.
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Nineteen seventies.
Nineteen sixties.
Popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Radicalism in mass media-- History-- 20th century.
Social change-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Social values-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
Nineteen seventies.
Nineteen sixties.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.