Perfectly average : the pursuit of normality in postwar America /

Perfectly average : the pursuit of normality in postwar America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Creadick, Anna G., 1967-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
Series:Culture, politics, and the cold war.
Subjects:
National characteristics, American.
Body image > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Middle class > United States > History > 20th century.
Sex in popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Community life > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 1945-
United States > Social conditions > 1945-
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : situation normal
  • Model bodies, normal curves
  • Normalizing the nation : the study of American character
  • Passing for normal : fashioning a postwar middle class
  • From queer to eternity : normalizing heterosexuality in fact and fiction
  • Picture windows and Peyton Place : exposing normality in postwar communities
  • Conclusion : home, normal home.