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In A Generation Divided, Rebecca Klatch, a Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego, examines the generation that became politically active during the 1960s, telling the story of both the New Left and the New Right.
The book was inspired by Karl Manheim’s essay “The Problem of Generations”, which argued that people in the same age group “share a historical location in the same way that people of the same class share a social location. ... “Hence, within these generations, there exist separate and even antagonistic generation-units," which "form a dynamic relationship of tension. At the same time that they are in conflict, they are also oriented toward one another; their antagonisms are part of an ongoing conversation" (Klatch, 3-4).
While researching for her book, Women of the New Right (1987), Klatch began to wonder “how [people of the right and left] could have lived through the same dramatic events and interpreted them in such radically different ways” (Klatch, 4). ... Many activists on the right, as well as the left, came of age during the 1960’s, and continued to transform and grow throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s. ... By charting activists from two opposing movements over time, she tries to show that the 60’s generation was not an undifferentiated whole, and that, “each generation speaks out with more than one voice” (Rintala, 94). ... The book is an intriguing mixture of real life stories told by women and men; from the far-right, far-left, and everywhere in between .
Approximate Word count = 1248
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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