The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style 9780773574342

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The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style
 9780773574342

Table of contents :
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Sixties in Print: Remembering Quebec’s Quiet Revolution
3 Canadian Women and the International Arena in the Sixties: The Voice of Women/La voix des femmes and the Opposition to the Vietnam War | frances early
4 Negotiating Citizenship: Joyce Wieland’s Reason over Passion
5 A Crash Course in Manhood: Men, Cars, and Risk in Postwar Vancouver
6 “The Age of Aquarius”: Medical Expertise and the Prevention and Control of Drug Use Undertaken by the Quebec and Ontario Governments
7 Canada’s Foul-Weather Friend: How the War Disguised de Gaulle’s Designs
8 The Ambivalence of Architectural Culture in Quebec and Canada, 1955–1975
9 Art and Urban Renewal: MOMA’s New City Exhibition and Halifax’s Uniacke Square
10 California Casual: How the Slouch Sold the Modern
Contributors
Index
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