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Book SynopsisWere the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? Growing Up takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.
No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. And at the heart of all that controversy - the music, drugs, fashion, hopes, dreams and political movements - is sex.
In this wide-ranging and eye-opening survey of the sexual landscape of the 1960s, Peter Doggett has assembled a dozen little-known stories that reveal how the sexual revolution transformed people's lives - for better or worse.
'An important reappraisal of a decade that changed us, for good and ill' Sunday Times
'Fascinating...shows rather conclusively that the sixties was not a sexual paradise' Evening Standard
'Creates an account of the 1960s that, unlike most popular histories, does not edit out the grim bits' Mail on Sunday
Trade ReviewThe case to rethink our assumptions about the period is one Doggett makes with verve and controlled passion ...
An excellent book -- David Aaronovitch * The Times, *Book of the Week* *
[A] fascinating...new book about the decade [the 60's] -- Rachel Cooke * Observer *
Refreshingly undogmatic, well-researched and highly readable -- David Kynaston * Spectator *
I very much enjoyed the ride.
Growing Up's strengths lies not so much in it being
an expert guide to the seedier side of the 1960s (which it certainly is) but in the question Doggett has woven in every chapter, but just manages to leave unsaid: just how much has changed? -- Kate Lister * Daily Telegraph *
In
rich and playful prose,
Growing Up knits together material from newspapers, women's magazines, films, television and pop music to create an account of the 1960s that,
unlike most popular histories, does not edit out the grim bits -- Louise Perry * Mail on Sunday *
An important reappraisal of a decade that changed us, for good and ill -- Christina Patterson * Sunday Times *
Peter Doggett's fascinating new book
Growing Up shows rather conclusively that the sixties was not a sexual paradise -- Tomiwa Owolade * Evening Standard *
