Alice Echols

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Alice Echols is a cultural critic and historian.[1] A specialist of the 1960s, Echols is Professor of English, Gender Studies and History at the University of Southern California.[2][3]

Education

Echols received her Bachelor's degree from Macalester College in 1973. She obtained her Master's degree and Doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1980 and 1986 respectively.

Publications

She authored (with foreword by Ellen Willis), Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975.;[4] Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin; Shaky Ground: The Sixties and Its Aftershocks; and most recently, Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture. She is currently at work on a book about a Depression-era banking scandal in Colorado.

She also wrote a chapter on The Women's Liberation Movement in William McConnell's book The Counterculture Movement of the 1960s.

Selected bibliography

  • Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America 1967-1975[4]
  • Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks (2002)[3]
  • Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)[5]
  • Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2009)[3]

References

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External links

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