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The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume advances the international historiographical debate on the 1970s, historically tests theories of 'value change', and takes a long-term interpretative view of the history of the present in highly industrialized Europe..
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Fiammetta Balestracci, Isabel Richter, and Christina von Hodenberg: The Long 1970s in Europe as a Transformational Period towards Post-Rational Values
- I. Social Scientists and Theories of Value Change
- 2: Martin Deuerlein: Modernization and the Fate of the Nation-State: Expert Debates in West Germany and the United States during the Long 1970s
- 3: Pascal Germann: Changing Values and Social Knowledge: The Social Indicators Movement, Quality of Life Studies, and the 'Silent Revolution' in the 1970s
- 4: Lisa Dittrich: Historicizing Love and Partnership: A Grass-Roots Perspective on Value Change in Marriage in East Germany
- II. Experiments with the Post-Rational Self
- 5: Isabel Richter: Youth Cultures, New Religiosities in West Germany, and the Search for Meaning in the Long 1970s
- 6: Juliane Fürst: Goodbye Reforms, Hello Kaif: The Shift from Intellectual Dissent to a Nonconformism of Feeling(s) in the later Soviet Union
- 7: Kristoff Kerl: Ecstatic Bodies as Actors of Change: Drugs and Sexuality in West Germany's Alternative Milieu during the late 1960s and early 1970s
- III. Consumerism and Politics
- 8: Patricia Hertel: 'Full board with a pang of conscience': Value Changes and Tourist Travel to the Western European Dictatorships
- 9: Norbert Götz: Towards Expressive Humanitarianism: The Formative Experience of Biafra
- IV. Rethinking Gendered Bodies
- 10: Maud Anne Bracke: Feminism, the Sexual Revolution, and the Embodied Political Subject in France
- 11: Roseanna Webster: Body Politics in the Barrios: The Long 1970s in Spain
- 12: Kinga S. Bloch: Vamps, Wives, and (Im?)Potent Socialist Heroes: An Explorative Study of Sex and Power in Polish TV Series from the 1970s
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
About the author
Fiammetta Balestracci is a specialist in contemporary history with interests in the history of Germany, the history of the Italian Communist Party, and the history of sexuality. She obtained her Ph.D at the University of Milan and was recently awarded her habilitation in Italy. In 2017-19 she was awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to focus on the transformation of female sexuality in Italy and Germany during the long 1970s. She has worked at many Italian and European universities and research institutes, including Queen Mary University of London and LMU Munich.
Christina von Hodenberg is the Director of the German Historical Institute London (GHIL) and a Professor in European History at Queen Mary University of London. She has written five monographs in the fields of media history, social protest, and gender history. Her most recent book, a revisionist account of the late 1960s protest movements, will be published as
The Other 1968: Social History of a West German Revolt with Oxford University Press in 2024.
Isabel Richter is a Deputy Director at the German Historical Institute Washington DC where she has led the GHI Pacific Office at the University of California, Berkeley since autumn 2023. She studied modern history, German studies, and Spanish and received her Ph.D. in modern history from the TU Berlin and her habilitation from the Ruhr University Bochum. Her research interests include German cultural history (late eighteenth century to the present), National Socialism and its aftermath, resistance and countercultures in the twentieth century, the global 1960s, and the history of life stages (youth, ageing, end of life, and death).
Summary
The long 1970s have recently emerged as the start of a new epoch in which we still live. This volume advances the international historiographical debate on the 1970s, historically tests theories of 'value change', and takes a long-term interpretative view of the history of the present in highly industrialized Europe..
