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The permissive society : America, 1941-1965 / Alan Petigny.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Petigny, Alan Cecil, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moral conditions.
- Liberalism.
- Social aspects.
- History.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- United States.
- Social conditions.
- Social change--United States--History--20th century.
- Social change.
- Liberalism--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Moral conditions--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- x, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- Introduction : World War II, the ascendancy of science, and the prologue to the permissive turn
- Psychology : Benjamin Spock, Carl Rogers, and the liberalizing impulse in the 1950s
- Religion : ballrooms, bingo, blue laws, and Billy Graham : piety and secularization in 1950s America
- Sex : Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the sexual revolution in the postwar period
- Feminism : the rising status of women in the age of Eisenhower
- Youth culture : rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and the myth of opposition
- The self : from original sin to self-actualization : Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, and new notions of identity in postwar America
- Denouement : the normative lag and the role of religion in the transformation of American culture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521888967
- 0521888964
- 9780521757225
- 0521757223
- OCLC:
- 276228921
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