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Article: Sex in the Heartland. (Reviews).
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- Journal of Social History
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- June 22, 2002
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Sex in the Heartland. By Beth Bailey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1999. vii 265 pp. $27.00).
Beth Bailey provides a close examination of the emergence and impact of the sexual revolution in the heartland of America. Rather than exploring the East or West coasts, Bailey turns instead to the university-dominated town of Lawrence, Kansas to examine the on-the-ground dynamics of sexual and social change. While the patterns she finds might not be as radical as those that developed in the centers of the feminist and gay liberation movements, her findings might ultimately prove more important for considering the impact of the sexual revolution ...