Not June Cleaver : women and gender in postwar America, 1945-1960 /

Not June Cleaver : women and gender in postwar America, 1945-1960 / [print] edited by Joanne Meyerowitz. - Phliadelphia : Temple University Press, (c)1994. - vi, 411 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

When women arrived : the trasformation 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 Sexualized woman : the lesbian, the prostitute, and the containment of female sexuality in postwar America "Other" fifties : beats and bad girls Xiaolan Bao -- Susan Rimby Leighow -- Dorothy Sue Cobble -- Susan M. Hartmann -- Susan Lynn -- Harriet Hyman Alonso -- Deborah A. Gerson -- Margaret Rose -- Dee Garrison -- Joanne Meyerowitz -- Ruth Feldstein -- Regina G. Kunzel -- Rickie Solinger -- Donna Penn -- Wini Breines



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Women--Employment--History--United States--20th century.

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