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Tag Archives: sexual revolution
A Berkeley Girl Looks Back
Fifty years ago this month, the May Revolution began in Paris and spread throughout France. The population of France was just over 50 million, and 10 million workers went out on strike. Imagine if today, out of 327 million Americans, … Continue reading
How The Berkeley Girl series isn’t “chick lit” – stories for men, too?
I’m aware and concerned that very few men will want to read a book entitled “The Berkeley Girl.” And why should they? How can you, who are my female readers from three generations, place it into the hands of the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1968 history, 1968 May Revolution, 60s stereotypes, activism, Berkeley, historical fiction, literature, novels for men, Paris, political action, protest, sexual revolution, The Berkeley Girl, Vietnam veterans
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My Confessions from the Summer of Love
During the Summer of Love I was in Berkeley—not in San Francisco. Recently, listening to a PBS special on the Beatles’ masterpiece, “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” brought me back, as only music can do.* The Beatles and their … Continue reading
Lyrics jammed in my throat…
How I loved the 1964 Bob Dylan song The Times They Are A’Changin’ when I was at Cal Berkeley. I knew every line by heart, sang them triumphantly with my friends, intoned them under my breath, marching in time to … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960s, 1968, 1970s, A Time to Cast Away Stones, Berkeley, history, literature, memoir, politics, sexual revolution, student protest
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Kale, Compost and Condoms
What has sex got to do with revolution, anyway? “…the students are still out there, that’s what I have heard…They’re living and making love right on the barricades.” “…Well, this is about freedom, isn’t it?…Doesn’t that include free … Continue reading
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