If Not Ward Cleaver, Then Who?
2001; Binghamton University; Volume: 13; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/jowh.2001.0064
ISSN1527-2036
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
ResumoThe immediate postwar years witnessed a great debate about women's and the family's place in American society. While "domestic containment" may have been the dominant discourse, Jane Levey's fine addition to the Not June Cleaver school of post-World War II family historiography helps us understand the range of alternatives. 1 Levey's thoughtful exploration shows how both The Egg and I and Cheaper by the Dozen, coming as they did in the wake of wartime disruptions, offered men and women a way to reimagine, reenvision, and reinvent domestic life during a time of cultural instability and anxiety. 2
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