The Progressive Housewife - Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965

"A convincing revisionist account of the roles of US women in the two decades after WW II. . . . A very interesting rereading of a standard stereotype."--"Choice"

List of contents

Introduction: Citizenship and Middle-Class Politics in the Postwar Era

PART I: THE FORMATION OF SUBURBAN QUEENS

1. "Queens Has a Street Named Utopia"

2. Housing and Access to Middle-Class Status

3. Suburban Radicals

PART II: POLITICAL CULTURE, POLITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

4. Active Citizenship and Community Needs in Queens

5. The School Crisis and Citizens' View of Metropolitan Development

6. As Mothers or as Parents?

PART III: TURNING POINTS: GENDER AND THE MIDDLE CLASS IN THE POSTWAR ERA

7. Betty Friedan, the Volunteers for Stevenson, and 1950s Housewives

8. Middle-Class Antiliberalism Revisited

Conclusion

Appendix: Queens Community Newspapers

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Sylvie Murray teaches history at the University College of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia.

Summary

"A convincing revisionist account of the roles of US women in the two decades after WW II... A very interesting rereading of a standard stereotype."-Choice

Product details

• Authors: Sylvie Murray
• Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.2003
• EAN: 9780812237184
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-3718-4
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories