Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in the Postwar America, 1945-1960
In 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. Not June Cleaver unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed form this one-dimensional image.\ This collection of fifteen revisionist essays charts new directions in American women's history and provides connections to scholarship...
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1Introduction: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-196012When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown193An "Obligation to Participate": Married Nurses' Labor Force Participation in the 1950s374Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era575Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years846Gender and Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s1037Mayhem and Moderation: Women Peace Activists during the McCarthy Era1288"Is Family Devotion Now Subversive?": Familialism against McCarthyism1519Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California: The Community Service Organization, 1947-196217710"Our Skirts Gave Them Courage": The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955-196120111Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-195822912"I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till26313White Neurosis, Black Pathology: Constructing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy in the Wartime and Postwar United States30414Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients before Roe v. Wade33515The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America35816The "Other" Fifties: Beats and Bad Girls382About the Contributors409\\
