Much more than a rehashing of old work, Shaky Ground blends the familiar with the little known, injects some wry bits of personal and intellectual autobiography, and through the judicious selection and positioning of essays, delivers a work that is more than the sum of its parts. Women's Review of Books This collection is compelling when Echols mines unusual spaces
the ... Read morehidden compartments of sexual ambiguity, the sweaty floors of disco-theques
to trace the far-reaching reverberations of post-'60s social movements. Los Angeles Times Compelling... Echols mines unusual spaces-the hidden compartments of sexual ambiguity, the sweaty floors of discotheques-to trace the far-reaching reverberations of post-'60's social movements. Los Angeles Times Alice Echols makes brilliant, fresh, original sense of the contradictory Sixties-the music, the politics, the people. No one has done more to place the era in context-its own and ours.
Katha Pollitt The Nation [Echols'] essays on social change... are tightly argued and well researched... Intriguing.
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