Not June Cleaver Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

Name: Not June Cleaver Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960
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ISBN: 9781566391719

ISBN-10: 1566391717

ISBN-13: 9781566391719

Edition: 1994

Authors: June Meyerowitz, June Meyerowitz

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In the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. These mythical women were like the 1950s TV character June Cleaver, white, middle-class, suburban housewives. Not June Cleaver unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed form this one-dimensional image.This collection of fifteen revisionist essays charts new directions in American women's history and provides connections to scholarship that, until recently, has focused primarily on the years before 1945 and after 1960. The contributors explore the work and activism of postwar American women and also point to the contradictions and…

Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Temple University Press
Publication date: 5/26/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.430




Introduction: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960




When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown




An "Obligation to Participate": Married Nurses' Labor Force Participation in the 1950s




Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era




Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years




Gender and Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s




Mayhem and Moderation: Women Peace Activists during the McCarthy Era




"Is Family Devotion Now Subversive?": Familialism against McCarthyism




Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California: The Community Service Organization, 1947-1962




"Our Skirts Gave Them Courage": The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955-1961




Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958




"I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till




White Neurosis, Black Pathology: Constructing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy in the Wartime and Postwar United States




Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients before Roe v. Wade




The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America




The "Other" Fifties: Beats and Bad Girls



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