Swinging Single: Representing Sexuality in the 1960s

Critics and defenders alike connect today's widespread anxieties about sexuality and culture to the political activism of the 1960's and the counterculture's preoccupation with the individual pursuit of pleasure. In contrast, the essays in Swinging Single attribute the new sexual mores of that era not to it's political upheavals but to a confluence of social, cultural and economic factors that encouraged personal gratification and altered traditionally gender roles.