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Not June Cleaver
June Meyerowitz
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Description for Not June Cleaver
Paperback. 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. Series: Critical Perspectives on the Past Series. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPG; HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 45. Weight in Grams: 620.
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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. 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...
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Series
Critical Perspectives on the Past Series
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781566391719
SKU
V9781566391719
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99-1
Reviews for Not June Cleaver
"Not June Cleaver 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." —Publishers Weekly "An astonishingly successful effort to rewrite the history of American women in the postwar era... [that] challenges well-established...
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