Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

by June Meyerowitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1566391717
• ISBN13: 9781566391719
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"