Counterculture & Feminism

What is Counterculture

• Counterculture – by Timothy Leary
• Prometheus as Counterculture Archetype

FBI Files

Writers

• FBI Files: Charles Bukowski – Suspected Dirty Old Man
• FBI Files: Dorothy Parker – Suspected Communist
• FBI Files: Henry Miller – Suspected Nazi Sympathizer & Cult Leader
• FBI Files: Langston Hughes – Suspected Communist Party Propagandist
• FBI Files: “Roy” Bradbury – Suspected Communist, Communist Cuba supporter
• FBI Files: Truman Capote – Suspected Communist
• FBI Files: William Faulkner – Suspected Blackmail Victim and Adulterer

Philosophy

• Baruch Spinoza: The God Of Spinoza
• Chinese Thought: Confucius 孔子 (551–479 BCE)
• Existentialism
• Plato’s Euthyphro Dilemma
• Plato from the “Apology”
• Plato: from “The Symposium”
• Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave

The Roaring Twenties: the Algonquin Round Table, the Bloomsbury Group & the Lost Generation

Art & Artists

• Chop Suey (1929) – Edward Hopper
• Frida Kahlo: Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress (1926)
• History Of Mexico (1929-35) – Diego Rivera
• Menin Gate At Midnight (1927) – Will Longstaff
• New York, Early Twenties (1920-24) – Thomas Hart Benton

Art Movements

• Art Deco of the Roaring Twenties
• Expressionism & The Roaring Twenties
• Dadaism and the Roaring Twenties
• Surrealism and the Roaring Twenties

Authors

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Charlotte Perkins Gilman “Suicide Note”
• Dorothy Parker
  • The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse – Dorothy Parker
  • Dorothy Parker’s Birthday
  • Dorothy Parker Quip For 12.26.21
  • The Flapper – Dorothy Parker
  • Resume (1926): Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker
• Edith Wharton
  • Edith Wharton Quotes for Women’s History Month
• e.e. cummings
  • Nobody-But-Yourself – e.e. cummings
• James Joyce
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Robert Benchley
  • Robert Benchley on Bohemians
• Simone de Beauvoir
  • Simone de Beauvoir Born
  • Simone de Beauvoir: Socialist to Feminist
• Virginia Woolf
  • Feminism and “A Room of One’s Own” – by Virginia Woolf
  • Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (1925)
  • Virginia Woolf. from “To the Lighthouse”
  • Virginia Woolf Birth
  • Virginia Woolf Suicide Note
• Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Eulogy on the Flapper – Zelda Fitzgerald (1922)

Literary Events & Groups of the Twenties

• Algonquin Round Table
• The Bloomsbury Group
• Ezra Pound
• Franz Kafka, the little girl and her doll
• Lost Generation
• Quips, Wit and One liners of Yesteryear

Notable Books of the Twenties

• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Age of Innocence (1920) – Edith Wharton
• Notable Books of the Twenties: All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque (1929)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Cane – Jean Toomer (1923)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Cheri – Colette (1920)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Enchanted April – Elizabeth von Arnim (1923)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Anita Loos (1924)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald (1925)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Inimitable Jeeves – P.G Wodehouse (1923)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence (1928)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf (1925)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: A Passage to India – EM Forster (1924)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Passing – Nella Larsen (1929)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: So Big – Edna Ferber (1924)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Trial – Franz Kafka (1925)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: Ulysses – James Joyce (1922)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Waste Land – T. S. Eliot (1922)
• Notable Books of the Twenties: The Weary Blues – Langston Hughes (1926)

Magazines of the Twenties: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, etc.

• Lois Long “Lipstick” and Tables for Two at the New Yorker

Bootleggers: Distillers & Prohibition

• Bootleggers & Distillers a Short History: Revolutionary War to Prohibition

Events and Activities of the Twenties

• “Petting Parties” of the Twenties

Film & TV of, about or set in the Twenties

• House of Eliott (TV)
• Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (TV)
• Mr. Selfridge (TV)
• Peaky Blinders (TV)
• Upstairs, Downstairs (TV)

Singers, Dancers and Entertainers of the Twenties

• Bessie Smith & the Classic African American Female Blues of the Twenties
• Josephine Baker: American Born – French Entertainer

Songs of the Twenties

• Aba Daba Honeymoon – Helen Kane
• Blue Skies – Josephine Baker (1927)
• He’s So Unusual – Helen Kane (June 14, 1929)
• Let’s Misbehave – Cole Porter (1927)

Videos of and About the Twenties

• Resume (1926): Jennifer Jason Leigh as Dorothy Parker
• The Ten Year Lunch (Movie)

1950’s Beatnik’s to 1960’s Hippies & Beyond

Books, Authors & Literary Events

• Book Review: A Dog’s Head by Jean Dutourd
• The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• The Girls – Emma Cline
• Hunter S. Thompson Funeral
• i carry your heart with me(i carry it in – e.e. cummings
• Mad Girl’s Love Song – Sylvia Plath
• Sylvia Plath Fig Tree Metaphor
• Tulips – Sylvia Plath

Communal Living

• Starting a Commune
• Rainbow Family of Living Light
• Rebirth of American Communes

Communes

• Bayboro Community -St. Petersburg, Florida – Active
• Cambia – Louisa, Virginia – Active
• The Farm Community – Summertown, Tennessee – Active

Cults

• Utopia Gone Awry: Profiles in America Cults

Manson Family

• Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme, Sandra Good and ATWA (Air, Trees, Water, Animals)
• Dianne Lake: “Member of the Family: My Story of Charles Manson, Life Inside His Cult, and the Darkness That Ended the Sixties”
• Leslie Van Houten interview 12/29/1969
• Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme
• Manson Family Movies

NXIVM

• NXIVM And The Accusations Of It Being A Sex Cult

Drug Culture

• 4/20 Day
• Bicycle Day
• Cheap High: Robotripping
• Counterculture and Drug Use
• Drug and Drinking Cultures
• Heroin by The Velvet Underground
• LSD: A Primer
• MDMA (Ecstasy)
• Psilocybin
• Slang for Illegal Drug Combinations
• Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.

Hippie Crafts

• Drive Like A Hippie
• Hippie Activities to do Around a Campfire
• How to Grow an Avocado Sprout from a Seed in a Jar
• Pinto Pants

Hippie Food

• Hippie Pantry
• Hippie Food – Recipes

Music Events

• The Beatles and Astrid Kirchherr
• The Beatles Monopolize Top 5 Billboard Hits
• Billie Holiday’s Birthday
• The Day the Music Died

Songs

• Pictures Of You – The Cure
• Break On Through (To the Other Side) – The Doors
• Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan
• Masters of War – Bob Dylan
• With God On Our Side – Bob Dylan
• Box of Rain – Grateful Dead
• Knocking Round the Zoo – James Taylor
• Heroin – The Velvet Underground

Feminism

Feminist Movement

• 1913 March on Washington
• 19th Amendment Ratified
• Amelia Earhart to NYT
• Britain’s Health Education Council Poster 1969
• Ecofeminism
• International Women’s Day Origins
• Mary Wollstonecraft: Emancipation From Domesticity
• The Match Girls’ Strike
• Women’s Equality Day

Feminist Profiles

• Angela Davis
• Frida Kahlo Accident
• Huda Sha’arawi
• Margaret Sanger
• Simone de Beauvoir: Socialist to Feminist

Most Admired Women Authors

• Anne Sexton
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• Dorothy Parker
• Edith Wharton
• Isak Dinesen
• Marie de France
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Sylvia Plath
• Virginia Woolf

Medieval Women Authors

• Christine de Pizan
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Marguerite Porete
• Marie de France

Feminist Literary Works

• Feminism and “A Room of One’s Own” – by Virginia Woolf

Feminist Quotes

• Edith Wharton Quotes for Women’s History Month
• Mary Wollstonecraft Quotes for Women’s History Month
• Sylvia Plath on Writing
• Virginia Woolf. from “To the Lighthouse”