{"product_id":"not-june-cleaver-women-and-gender-in-postwar-america-1945-1960-9781566391719","title":"Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eNot June Cleaver\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed form this one-dimensional image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 ambiguities in postwar concepts of gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding examinations of such aspects of postwar women's history as the arrival of Chinese women immigrants in New York City; women's changing presence in the labor force and in union organization; and the precarious lives of women abortionists, lesbians, and single mothers, the authors effectively demonstrate how postwar women's identities were not only an expression of their gender but also of their class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, occupation, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eNot June Cleaver\u003ci\u003e reconsiders the roles of women as mothers, workers, activists, unionists and pacifists and read together these fine essays signify a systematic devaluation of women that eventually manifested itself in the coming of age of the women's movement.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"An astonishingly successful effort to rewrite the history of American women in the postwar era... [that] challenges well-established interpretations of postwar gender ideology, shows how gender politics were integral to Cold War politics, and complicates and deepens our understanding of postwar women...—working and middle-class, Chicana, white, black, and Asian...and essential text for historians of the Cold War and postwar gender politics\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eGeorge Chauncey\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction: Women and Gender in the Postwar United States   Joanne Meyerowitz Part I: Women and Wage Labor  2. When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown   Xiaolan Bao  3. An \"Obligation to Participate\": Married Nurses' Labor Force Participation in the 1950s   Susan Rimby Leighow  4. Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era   Dorothy Sue Cobble  5. Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years   Susan M. Hartmann Part II: Activist Women and Their Organizations  6. Gender and Post-World War II Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s   Susan Lynn  7. Mayhem and Moderation: Women Peace Activists During the McCarthy Era, 1945-1955   Harriet Hyman Alonso  8. \"Is Family Devotion Now Subversive?\": Familialism Against McCarthyism   Deborah A. Gerson  9. Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California: The Community Service Organization, 1947-1962   Margaret Rose  10. \"Our Skirts Gave Them Courage!\": The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955-1961   Dee Garrison Part III: Constructions of Womanhood  11. Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958   Joanne Meyerowitz  12. \"I Wanted the Whole World to See\": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till   Ruth Feldstein  13. White Neurosis, Black Pathology: Constructing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy in the Wartime and Postwar United States   Regina G. Kunzel Part IV: Sexual Outlaws and Cultural Rebels  14. Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients Before Roe v. Wade   Rickie Solinger  15. The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America   Donna Penn  16. The \"Other\" Fifties: Beats and Bad Girls   Wini Breines  About the Contributors","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041362051415,"sku":"9781566391719","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781566391719.jpg?v=1750949973","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/not-june-cleaver-women-and-gender-in-postwar-america-1945-1960-9781566391719","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}