Style of dress has always been a way for Americans to signify their politics; but perhaps never so overtly as in the 1960s and 1970s. Whether participating in presidential campaigns or Vietnam protests; hair and dress provided a powerful cultural tool for social activists to display their politics to the world and became both the cause and a symbol of the rift in American culture. Some Americans saw stylistic freedom as part of their larger political protests; integral to the ideals of self-expression; sexual freedom; and equal rights for women and minorities. Others saw changes in style as the erosion of tradition and a threat to the established social and gender norms at the heart of family and nation.Through the lens of fashion and style; Dressing for the Culture Wars guides us through the competing political and social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Although long hair on men; pants and miniskirts on women; and other hippie styles of self-fashioning could indeed be controversial; Betty Luther Hillman illustrates how self-presentation influenced the culture and politics of the era and carried connotations similarly linked to the broader political challenges of the time. Luther Hillmanrsquo;s new line of inquiry demonstrates how fashion was both a reaction to and was influenced by the political climate and its implications for changing norms of gender; race; and sexuality.
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