5/20/2023 0 Comments The feminine mystique sparknotes![]() The contributors explore the work and activism of postwar American women and also point to the contradictions and ambiguities in postwar concepts of gender. This 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. ![]() ![]() Not June Cleaver unveils the diversity of postwar women, showing how far women departed form this one-dimensional image. These mythical women were like the 1950s TV character June Cleaver, white, middle-class, suburban housewives. ![]() In the popular stereotype of post-World War II America, women abandoned their wartime jobs and contentedly retreated to the home. ![]()
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