Growing Up

<p><b>Were the 1960s really a great time of liberation and joyful experimentation? <i>Growing Up</i> takes an unflinching look at the dark underbelly of the sexual revolution.</b><br><br>No era in recent history has been both more celebrated and vilified than the 1960s. And at the heart of all that controversy - the music drugs fashion hopes dreams and political movements - is sex.<br><br>In this wide-ranging and eye-opening survey of the sexual landscape of the 1960s Peter Doggett has assembled a dozen little-known stories that reveal how the sexual revolution transformed people's lives - for better or worse.<br><br><b>'An important reappraisal of a decade that changed us for good and ill' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>'Fascinating...shows rather conclusively that the sixties was not a sexual paradise' <i>Evening Standard</i><br><br>'Creates an account of the 1960s that unlike most popular histories does not edit out the grim bits' <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b></p>