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100 1 $aVandenburgh, Jane.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89005372
245 12 $aA pocket history of sex in the twentieth century :$ba memoir /$cJane Vandenburgh.
260 $aBerkeley :$bCounterpoint :$bDistributed by Publishers Group West,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $a374 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"Jane Vandenburgh's life began normally enough. Born into "a certain kind of family" - affluent, white, Protestant - she came of age during a time when the sexual revolution began sweeping the cultural landscape, changing our manners and mores forever. But what began as an all-American childhood soon spun off and went spectacularly awry." "It was the 1950s. Her father, an architect with a prominent Los Angeles firm, had been repeatedly arrested for being in gay bars, freed only when her grandfather showed up in the middle of the night to pay bribes to the L.A.P.D. Diverted into psychiatric hospitals time and again to be "cured" of his homosexuality, her father committed suicide when the author was nine. Her mother - an artist and freethinker - lost custody of her three children when she too spun out of control and was consigned to a mental institution. The author and her brothers were given over to an aunt and uncle who suddenly had, under one roof, seven children and serious problems of their own." "It was right about then that these kids - an unruly pack of barely disciplined surfers - began riding the next set of cultural waves, including sex, drugs, and alcohol, as they faced the kinds of political challenges and riotous new freedoms that would carry so many out to sea." "In the midst of private trauma and loss, Jane Vandenburgh delights in revealing larger truths about American culture and her life within it. Quirky, witty, and uncannily wise, A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century is a brilliant blend of memoir and cultural revelation."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aVandenburgh, Jane.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89005372
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