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- Book Title
- The Progressive Housewife
- Publication Name
- Progressive Housewife : Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965
- Title
- The Progressive Housewife
- Subtitle
- Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0812237188
- EAN
- 9780812237184
- ISBN
- 9780812237184
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Subject
- Gender Sex & Relationships
- Release Date
- 21/05/2003
- Release Year
- 2003
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Series
- Politics and Culture in Modern America Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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Fictional characters, such as June Cleaver, and criticism of suburban domestic passivity, notably Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, have profoundly shaped our popular and intellectual view of the immediate postwar decade. It is this image of apolitical domesticity and suburban conformity that Sylvie Murray challenges in The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 . Set in the rapidly developing neighborhoods of northeastern Queens--home of none other than Friedan herself in the early 1950s--this study traces the political activities of a diverse group of middle-class suburbanites and brings into focus the central role played by full-time mothers and housewives as community activists. Like their famous neighbor, these Queens housewives were at the center of a vital network of civic organizations that used a variety of political strategies--from quiet lobbying to street protests--to build residential neighborhoods of quality. The battles they fought--to improve local schools and other public services, to stop the construction of public housing, and to control the cost and quality of rental housing, among others--cannot be easily pegged to the right or the left on the political spectrum. Rather, they reveal a profound conviction that both citizens and the state were responsible for the well-being of local communities. Part of an ongoing historical revision of the 1950s, The Progressive Housewife engages the current attempt to recognize and understand the political meaning of the middle class and suburbia, dispelling the myth of suburban domestic passivity by revealing the forms of political activity ordinary women were engaged in long before contemporary feminism had surfaced.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812237188
ISBN-13
9780812237184
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2420178
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Progressive Housewife : Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Series
Politics and Culture in Modern America Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq1439.N6m87 2003
Reviews
"An important contribution to our still-emerging historical understanding of post-World War II America. Taking the conventional wisdom about domesticity head on, Murray probes beneath the veneer of the 'feminine mystique.'"--Thomas Sugrue, "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, An important contribution to our still-emerging historical understanding of post-World War II America. Taking the conventional wisdom about domesticity head on, Murray probes beneath the veneer of the 'feminine mystique.', "An important contribution to our still-emerging historical understanding of post-World War II America. Taking the conventional wisdom about domesticity head on, Murray probes beneath the veneer of the 'feminine mystique.'"-Thomas Sugrue, 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.
Table of Content
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
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
College Audience
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Sociology / General, Women's Studies, Sociology / Urban
Lccn
2002-041256
Dewey Decimal
305.42/09747/1
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
History, Social Science
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