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WITHOUT
APOLOGY
WIN cover, November 1, 1969. Photo by Henry Gordillo, courtesy of the
War Resisters League.
WITHOUT
APOLOGY
EDITEDB Y
SOHNYAS AYRES,A NDERSS TEPHANSON,
STANLEYA RONOWITZ,F REDRICJA MESON
UNIVERSITOYF M INNESOTAPR ESS* MINNEAPOLIS
IN COOPERATIOWNI THS OCIALT EXT
Copyright ? 1984 by Social Text
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a re-
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photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the
publisher.
Second printing, 1985
Published by the University of Minnesota Press
2037 University Avenue Southeast
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The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer.
Printed in the United States of America
This book corresponds to a special double issue of Social Text (Volume 3, no. 3
and Volume 4, no. 1, Spring-Summer 1984).
The Social Text editorial collective during the time of preparation: Nancy
Anderson, Stanley Aronowitz, Serafina Bathrick, Rachel Bowlby, John Brenkman,
Stephen Bronner, Michael Brown, Michael Denning, Jean Franco, Jeff Halley,
Fredric Jameson, Sohnya Sayres, Loren Shumway, Anders Stephanson, Cornel
West, Richard Wolff, George Yudice.
Special thanks to: Nancy Anderson, Finvola Drury, Peter Gourfain, Wendy Graham,
Robert Roth and Daniela Salvioni.
Design and cover: Cynthia Carr.
Production: Stanley Aronowitz, Cynthia Carr,D aniela Salvioni, Sohnya Sayres, and
Anders Stephanson.
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ISBN 0-8166-1336-2
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
THEE DITORS
PART1 I
WHENT HEN EW LEFTW AS NEW 11
STANLEAYR ONOWITZ
THEP ARADOXO F THEA FRO-AMERICARNE BELLION 44
CORNELW EST
ROCKA ND THEP OLITICOS F MEMORY 59
SIMONF RITH
A 60s MOVEMENITN THE8 0s 70
DAVIDA PTER
RADICALF EMINISMAN D FEMINISRTA DICALISM 91
ELLENW ILLIS
THEE THNICQ UESTION 119
COLING REER
VIETNAMT: HET HOUSANDP LATEAUS 137
HERMANR APAPORT
FRENCHM AOISM 148
BELDENFI ELDS
PERIODIZINTGH E6 0s 178
FREDRIJCA MESON
A VERYP ARTIALC HRONOLOGY 210
PART2
READINGF OR WHAT? 216
INTRODUCTION 217
SOHNYAS AYRES
MEMORIES
NEWW INEI N OLD BOTTLES 223
IRVINGW EXLER
ALLT HEG OOD INDIANS 226
PAULAG UNNA LLEN
NOTESF ROMT HES IXTIES 230
MARTIND UBERMAN
FROMT HEN OVELB URNINGQ UESTIONS: 234
'THEH APPINESSQ UESTION'
ALIXK ATESS HULMAN
THOSEB EATS 238
MARILYCNO FFEY
OUTSIDER EADINGS 241
FREDP FEIL
NEW LEFTO: LD AMERICA 244
JAMESG ILBERT
BETWEENT HE3 0s AND THE6 0s 247
MURRAYBO OKCHIN
SURVIVINGC ONTRADICTIONS 251
GRETAN EMIROFF
PATHST O CRITICATLH EORY 254
ADOLPHR EED
FROMR EICHT O MARCUSE 258
JOELK OVEL
THEL EFT'SS ILENTS OUTH 261
JERRWY ATTS
"CHILDRENH AVEN O FREEDOMT. HEYA RE 263
PROPERTYJU STL IKEA BOOK"
FINVOLAD RURY
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
"I HAVEA HARDT IMER EADING..." 268
ROBERRTO TH
OFFERINGFS ROMT HEM ULTICULTURE 270
ERNIEB RILL
WOMEN'ST ERMS 273
KARENL INDSEY
VISIBILITY 274
JILLN ELSON
OVERCOMINTGH EM EMORY 275
PAULB UHLE
MURRAYK EMPTON 280
GENEB ROWN
DORISL ESSING 281
SUSAN OSBORN
THOMASP YNCHON 283
JOHN KRAFFT
NOAM CHOMSKY 286
MARTYB LATT
JOHN DEWEY 289
TIMOTHVY. KAUFMAN-OSBORN
PAULG OODMAN 290
ARNOLDK RUPAT
PAULG OODMAN 292
ARNOLDS ACHAR
[RE]TAKES
THES TRANGER ELATIONB ETWEENSE X 295
AND REPRODUCTION
MURIEDLI MEN
FEMINISMAN D TEENR OMANCE1: 966-1983 296
SHARONT HOMPSON
MOVEMENTNSE VERD IE 299
CHARLISEH IVELY
ON RECURRINDGE BATES 301
ELLIOLTI NZER
THEO THERS IDE 304
SOLY URICK
ALLT HEN EWS... 308
NANCYA NDERSON
WHYY OU WILLN EVERR EADT HEN OVELY OU 309
MIGHTL IKET O
JAYB OYER
THES AMET O YOU 311
KATEE LLIS
BLACKSI N THE6 0s: A CENTENNIARLE PRISE 313
CARLJ ORGENSON
FROM" (Re)Sublimatingt he 60s" 317
HERBB LAU
NO ANSWER 320
GEORGED RURY
SOUTHO F YOURB ORDER 324
JEANF RANCO
60s FEMINISM 326
RACHEBLO WLBY
ROCKM USIC 327
MIKED ENNING
ECONOMICS 329
RICKW OLFF
A MATTERO F INFLUENCE 330
KIRKPATRSIACLKE
FROMM OMMY'SW OMB& DADDY'SJ ISMT O 332
NUCLEARD OOM AND ANARCHISM
RICHARMD ETZ& ALEXJ EAVINS
QUESTIONABLCEA RTOONS 335
TULIK UPFERBERG
PUTTINGF EMINISMBA CKO N ITSF EET 338
SILVIAF EDERICI
"IT'SD AMNS LICKO UT THERE" 346
FLOK ENNEDY
APPENDIX 359
LEXICONO F FOLK-ETYMOLOGY 360
RALPHL ARKIANN D DANIELF OSS
CONTRIBUTORNS'O TES 378
INDEX 384
"Christmas Cantata" by the Bread and Puppet Theater, a performance for
the Angry Arts Against the War in Vietnam, January 25-February 5, 1967.
Some 500 artists participated in that protest. Photo by Karl Bissinger.
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March 26, 1966. Photo by Harvey Richards, courtesy of the Guardian.
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