Alice Echols

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Alice Echols is a cultural critic and a historian of the 1960's.[1]

She authored (with foreword by Ellen Willis), Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975. This book is divided into six sections, each of which attempts to explain the evolution of the women’s rights movement in America from 1967-1975. This book is a testament to the validity of feminism as a philosophy and also serves as a written record for feminist history. Echols writes primarily about feminist organizations and how they functioned in comparison to other civil rights groups of the time period.

[edit] Books

• Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975
• Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks (2002),
• Sweet Scars of Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999), and
• Upside Down: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (forthcoming).