Alice Echols

Alice Echols

Alice Echols is professor of history and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at the University of Southern California. She has written four books about the long Sixties, including Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin and Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture.

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Daring to Be Bad, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
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Daring to Be Bad, Thirtieth Anniversary Edition
  • By: Alice Echols
  • Narrator: Bernadette Dunne
  • Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
  • Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
  • Publish date: January 01, 2020
  • Language: English
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An award-winning and canonical history of radical feminism, whose activist heat and intellectual audacity powered second-wave feminism–thirtieth anniversary edition A fascinating chronicle of radical feminism’s rise and fall from the... Read more

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