{"product_id":"not-june-cleaver-june-meyerowitz-9781566391719","title":"Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eNot June Cleaver\u003c\/i\u003e unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed form this one-dimensional image.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of fifteen revisionist essays charts new directions in American women's history and provides connections to scholarship that, until recently, has focused primarily on the years before 1945 and after 1960. The contributors explore the work and activism of postwar American women and also point to the contradictions and ambiguities in postwar concepts of gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding examinations of such aspects of postwar women's history as the arrival of Chinese women immigrants in New York City; women's changing presence in the labor force and in union organization; and the precarious lives of women abortionists, lesbians, and single mothers, the authors effectively demonstrate how postwar women's identities were not only an expression of their gender but also of their class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, occupation, and politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e June Meyerowitz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1566391717\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781566391719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.05w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/02\/1994 pg. 300","brand":"June Meyerowitz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939667935487,"sku":"9781566391719","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_10924ede-11f4-4398-9314-6bff5ee67f4a.jpg?v=1681442817","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/not-june-cleaver-june-meyerowitz-9781566391719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}