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Authors: June Meyerowitz, Joanne Meyerowitz
ISBN-13: 9781566391719, ISBN-10: 1566391717
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Temple University Press
Date Published: May 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)

1	Introduction: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960	1
2	When Women Arrived: The Transformation of New York's Chinatown	19
3	An "Obligation to Participate": Married Nurses' Labor Force Participation in the 1950s	37
4	Recapturing Working-Class Feminism: Union Women in the Postwar Era	57
5	Women's Employment and the Domestic Ideal in the Early Cold War Years	84
6	Gender and Progressive Politics: A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s	103
7	Mayhem and Moderation: Women Peace Activists during the McCarthy Era	128
8	"Is Family Devotion Now Subversive?": Familialism against McCarthyism	151
9	Gender and Civic Activism in Mexican American Barrios in California: The Community Service Organization, 1947-1962	177
10	"Our Skirts Gave Them Courage": The Civil Defense Protest Movement in New York City, 1955-1961	201
11	Beyond the Feminine Mystique: A Reassessment of Postwar Mass Culture, 1946-1958	229
12	"I Wanted the Whole World to See": Race, Gender, and Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till	263
13	White Neurosis, Black Pathology: Constructing Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancy in the Wartime and Postwar United States	304
14	Extreme Danger: Women Abortionists and Their Clients before Roe v. Wade	335
15	The Sexualized Woman: The Lesbian, the Prostitute, and the Containment of Female Sexuality in Postwar America	358
16	The "Other" Fifties: Beats and Bad Girls	382
	About the Contributors	409