Perfectly Average : The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America /

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"At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945 and 1963 the idea of "normality" circulated as a keyword in almost every aspect of American culture. In Perfectly Average, Anna Cread...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Creadick, Anna G., 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.
Colección:Culture, politics, and the cold war.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Community life > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Middle class > United States > History > 20th century.
Body image > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
National characteristics, American.
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
United States > Civilization > 1945-
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : situation normal
  • Model bodies, normal curves
  • Normalizing the nation : the study of American character
  • Passing for normal : fashioning a postwar middle class
  • From queer to eternity : normalizing heterosexuality in fact and fiction
  • Picture windows and Peyton Place : exposing normality in postwar communities
  • Conclusion : home, normal home.

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