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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
Maybe someday
25
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
33/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Jane Kamensky
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
March 12, 2024
Historian Jane Kamensky chronicles a twentieth-century American life and offers a new understanding of the so-called sexual revolution.
What The Reviewers Say
Kamensky’s ambitious project... is a challenging one; she is at pains to avoid ascribing pat reasons for Royalle’s choices, while still providing ample context. At times the shifting focus can be disorienting.
A frank and unexpectedly lively biography. The book’s virtues include its melding of history with diaristic intimacy and clever, often incandescent prose..
Assiduously researched, elegantly written..
Kamensky’s deft portrait of Royalle undercuts... the tale of feminism’s decline.
