![]() It was named one of the “Best Books of 1999” by the “Los Angeles Times.” Her 2010 book, “Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture,” probes disco’s “hotness,” by which she means disco’s upending of America’s racial rules and gender and sexual conventions. Her second book, “Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin,” is a biography of the rock singer and a cultural history of the counterculture and the music scene of which Joplin was a part. In 1990, “Daring” was named a Gustavus Meyers Outstanding Book Winner. She is the author of four books that have shifted our understanding of the “long Sixties.” Her first, “Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-75,” was a pioneering social and intellectual history of second-wave feminism, one that emphasized its vital but vexed relationship to Black Power and the New Left. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies InstituteĪlice Echols is Professor of History, and the Barbra Streisand Chair of Contemporary Gender Studies at USC. Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West ![]() Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latinx and Latin American Studies ![]()
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