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

by June Meyerowitz

Temple University Press, 1994
eISBN: 978-1-4399-0881-5 | Paper: 978-1-56639-171-9
Library of Congress Classification HQ1420.N68 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 305.42097309045

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"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 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"
—George Chauncey, University of Chicago