Alice Echols
Quick Facts
Biography
Alice Echols. A specialist of the 1960s, Echols is Professor of English, Gender Studies and History at the University of Southern California.
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.; 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
- Shaky Ground: The Sixties and its Aftershocks (2002)
- Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999)
- Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2009)
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- "Dissecting rock 'n' roll's first female superstar". CNN. May 24, 1999. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2010.