Joachim C. Haberlen is Assistant Professor of Continental European History at the University of Warwick.Mark Keck-Szajbel is an Academic Research Fellow at the European University Viadrina.Kate Mahoney is a doctoral researcher in Modern History at the University of Warwick.

• IntroductionJoachim C. Haeberlen and Mark Keck-SzjabelChapter 1. Revolution as a Quest for an Authentic Life: The Sixties and Seventies in ItalyAngelo VentroneChapter 2. Authenticity through Transgression: Small Acts of Resentment in Post-1968 CzechoslovakiaBaris YorumezChapter 3. The Political, Emotional and Therapeutic: Narratives of Consciousness-raising and Authenticity in the English Women's Liberation MovementKate MahoneyChapter 4. A Genealogy of a Politics of Subjectivity: Guy Hocquenghem, Homosexuality, and the Radical Left in Post-68 FranceAntoine IdierChapter 5. New Feminism, Women's Subjectivity and Feminist Politics: Conceptual Transfers and Activist Inspirations in Yugoslavia in the 1970-80sZsofia LorandChapter 6. Women's Bodies and Feminist Subjectivities in West GermanyJane FreelandChapter 7. The Rise of a New Consciousness: Lesbian Activism in East Germany in the 1980sMaria BuehnerChapter 8. The Italian Movement of 1977 and the Cultural Praxis of the Youthful ProletariatDanilo MariscalcoChapter 9. The Struggle for Youth's Minds: The Securitate and Musical Countercultures in Communist RomaniaManuela MarinChapter 10. Punk Authenticity: Difference across the Iron CurtainJeff HaytonChapter 11. Humanitarianism on Stage: 'Live Aid' and the Origins of Humanitarian Pop MusicBenjamin MoeckelChapter 12. Embedded Abstractions: Authenticity, Aura, and Abject Domesticity in Hamburg's HafenstrasseJake P. SmithConcluding Thoughts: Authenticity's Visual TurnSara Blaylock

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