Synopses & Reviews
Karla Jays memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical womens groups and the New York Gay Liberation Front to Southern California in the early 70s, where she continued in the battle for gay civil rights. We see here helping to organize the takeover of The Ladies Home Journal and ogle-ins”where women staked out Wall Street and whistled at the men. We follow her in the fast lane of the sexual freedom movement as she liberates sun worshippers from their bathing suits.
Synopsis
A fast-paced memoir, serious and hilarious in turn, of the struggles and scandals, politics and personalities that made up the womens and gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s
Table of Contents
Men behaving very badly -- Bipolar sexuality -- Redstockings -- A/K/A Jay -- Stonewall girl -- Houses of fun, prison of pain -- Zapping Rat and the Ladies' Home Journal -- Guns, bats, and whistles -- The lavender menace -- Triple trouble -- Sunny days, hazy nights -- Stepping out, sitting in -- "Marry me and help us sue" -- Changing landscapes -- California scheming -- Consciousness-razing.