Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960 by June Meyerowitz

Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960

June Meyerowitz

424 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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In 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. Not Jun...

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