Beginning to see the light: sex, hope, and rock-and-roll

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"From the New Yorker's inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock-and-roll, sexuality, and freedom. Here Ellen Willis assuredly captures the thrill of music, the disdain of authoritarian culture, and the rebellious spirit of the '60s and '70s." --P.[4] cover.;Out of the Vinyl Deeps. Dylan -- You Can't Go Down Home Again -- The Who Sell -- Elvis in Las Vegas -- Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning -- See America First: Easy Rider and Alice's Restaurant -- Janis Joplin -- Hard to Swallow: Deep Throat -- It's Later Than You Think -- Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism -- Beginning to See the Light -- How's the Family? -- Jackie, We Hardly Knew You -- Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life -- Velvet Underground -- American Girls Want Everything. Learning from Chicago -- Herbert Marcuse, 1898-1979 -- Glossary for the Eighties -- The Family: Love It or Leave It -- Postscript: The Backlash According to Irving -- Toward a National Man Policy -- The Trial of Arline Hunt -- Abortion: Is a Woman a Person? -- Abortion: Overruling the Neo-Fascists -- Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography -- The Myth of the Powerful Jew -- My Podhoretz Problem-and His -- Next Year in Jerusalem.