1968 in Retrospect

Part I. Rethinking Historical Narratives

1. Freedom Now! 1968 as a Turning Point for Black American Student Activism
Patricia Hill Collins

2. She’s Leaving Home: Women’s Sixties Renaissance
Lynne Segal

3. Subterranean Traditions Rising: The Year That Enid Blyton Died
Ken Plummer

Part II. Theoretical Engagements

4. From 1968 to 1951: How Habermas Transformed Marx into Parsons
John Holmwood

5. Critical Theory and Crisis Diagnosis: Key Exchanges Between Reason and Revolution after 1968
Tracey Skillington

6. On Totalitarianism: The Continuing Relevance of Herbert Marcuse
Sarah Hornstein

7. Everyone Longs for a Master: Lacan and 1968
Stephen Frosh

Part III. Other Voices

8. May 1968 and Algerian Immigrants in France: Trajectories of Mobilization and Encounter
Maud Anne Bracke

9. Turning to Africa: Politics and Student Resistance in Africa since 1968
Leo Zeilig

10. Riding the Waves: Feminism, Lesbian and Gay Politics, and the Transgender Debates
Sally Hines

11. Subjectivization, State and Other: On the Limits of Our Political Imagination
Mihnea Panu

12. Conclusion: When Did 1968 End?
William Outhwaite

Keywords: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Politics of the Welfare State, Social History, Cultural History, Sociology of Culture, Sociology, general