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Title: Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 (Critical Perspectives on the Past) by Joanne Meyerowitz ISBN: 1-56639-171-7 Publisher: Temple Univ Press Pub. Date: June, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Refreshing reading
Comment: Like many gen-x progressives, I had absorbed the popular portrayal of the 'feminine mystique' without realizing there were still progressives fighting the good fight in post-war America. Not until working on a graduate level independent study did I realize how easily the mass media had distorted and hidden a facinating history of feminism and progressivism--at a time supposedly anthetical to both.
Without diminishing the hardships that did exist (restrictions on abortion, contraceptives, pregnancy discrimination, racial discrimination, homophobic bar raids) she shows how these groups responsed with ingenuity and independence. As an added plus, the book confirms dissent was much larger than the mass media or public officials cared to actually admit back to the general public. This false reassurance temporarily fit into the cold-war's emphasis on bland conformity, but it silenced many people's experiences until now.
Progressive actions must have been impossible in the era of McCarthyism's suppression of political and cultural dissent, but perseverance made the women's victories all the more rewarding. Furthermore, many of the same women profiled in Meyerowitz's book used the time to lay critical groundwork essential for the 'revolutionary' 1960's and 1970's. Feminism did not simply reconstitute itself after an 'abscence' following suffrage victory, but was marginalized by an unspoken arrangement between the media and politics.
Buy two copies of this book. One for yourself---and one to give your least favirote far right politican a much needed wakeup call.
Rating: 4
Summary: Not June Cleaver
Comment: This is a great compliation of essays about women during the 1950s who did not fit the idealized "feminine mystique" of the housewife. Joanne Meyerowitz's essay responding to Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique" is particularly interesting and reavealing. Meyerowitz conducted thourough research and came to the conclusion that the media, while celebrating domesticity, simultaniously applauded women who acheived in politics, careers, volunteer work and other areas outside the home. The book includes sections on Chinese American women and their arrival after the second world war, the brutal murder of Emmett Till, women labor activists, nurses, and education. It is comprehensive and highly historical, but easy and interesting for non-reasearchers to read.
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Title: Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era by Elaine Tyler May ISBN: 0465030556 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen ISBN: 0375407502 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Sex in the Heartland : by Beth Bailey ISBN: 0674009746 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 31 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Many Are the Crimes by Ellen Schrecker ISBN: 0691048703 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 09 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Cold War Civil Rights : Race and the Image of American Democracy by Mary L. Dudziak ISBN: 0691095132 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 28 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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