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Pages: 246
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-15 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
From Beatniks to Sputnik and from Princess Grace to Peyton Place, this book illuminates the female half of the U.S. population as they entered a "brave new worl
Language: en
Pages: 424
Pages: 424
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Temple University Press
In the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. This work unveils the diversit
Language: en
Pages: 282
Pages: 282
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-10 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press
In The Feminine Mystique, Jewish-raised Betty Friedan struck out against a postwar American culture that pressured women to play the role of subservient housewi
Language: en
Pages: 322
Pages: 322
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-09-23 - Publisher: Basic Books
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstr
Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set—and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In