Not June Cleaver
Not June Cleaver

Author: Joanne Jay Meyerowitz

Publisher: Temple University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9781566391719

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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. This work unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed from this one-dimensional image.

Daily Life of Women in Postwar America
Daily Life of Women in Postwar America

Author: Nancy Hendricks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1440871299

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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 world" that revolutionized women's lives. After World War II, the United States was the strongest, most powerful nation in the world. Life was safe and secure—but many women were unhappy with their lives. What was going on behind the closed doors of America's "picture-perfect" houses? This volume includes chapters on the domestic, economic, intellectual, material, political, recreational, and religious lives of the average American woman after World War II. Chapters examine topics such as the entertainment industry's evolving concept of womanhood; Supreme Court decisions; the shifting idea of women and careers; advertising; rural, urban, and suburban life; issues women of color faced; and child rearing and other domestic responsibilities. A timeline of important events and glossary help to round out the text, along with further readings and a bibliography to point readers to additional resources for their research. Ideal for students in high school and college, this volume provides an important look at the revolutionary transformation of women's lives in the decades following World War II.

Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965

Author: Linda Eisenmann

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0801888891

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Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.

A Jewish Feminine Mystique?
A Jewish Feminine Mystique?

Author: Hasia R. Diner

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0813547911

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Shira Kohn and Rachel Kranson are doctoral candidates in New York University's joint Ph. D. program in history and Hebrew and Judaic studies --Book Jacket.

Women Becoming Mathematicians
Women Becoming Mathematicians

Author: Margaret Anne Marie Murray

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780262632461

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Women mathematicians of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and how they built professional identities in the face of social and institutional obstacles.

Gender and the Long Postwar
Gender and the Long Postwar

Author: Karen Hagemann

Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781421414133

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How gender factored into politics and society in the United States and East and West Germany in the aftermath of World War II. Gender and the Long Postwar examines gender politics during the post–World War II period and the Cold War in the United States and East and West Germany. The authors show how disruptions of older political and social patterns, exposure to new cultures, population shifts, and the rise of consumerism affected gender roles and identities. Comparing all three countries, chapters analyze the ways that gender figured into relations between victor and vanquished and shaped everyday life in both the Western and Soviet blocs. Topics include the gendering of the immediate aftermath of war; the military, politics, and changing masculinities in postwar societies; policies to restore the gender order and foster marriage and family; demobilization and the development of postwar welfare states; and debates over sexuality (gay and straight).