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Perfectly average : the pursuit of normality in postwar America /
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. But what did this term really mean? Wh...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | Culture, politics, and the Cold War.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.