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Perfectly average : the pursuit of normality in postwar America / Anna G. Creadick.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Creadick, Anna G., 1967-
- Series:
- Culture, politics, and the Cold War
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community life.
- History.
- Sex in popular culture.
- Middle class.
- Body image--Social aspects.
- United States--Civilization--1945-.
- United States.
- Civilization.
- United States--Social conditions--1945-.
- Social conditions.
- National characteristics, American.
- Body image--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Body image.
- Middle class--United States--History--20th century.
- Sex in popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
- Community life--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2010]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781558498068
- 1558498060
- 9781558498051
- 1558498052
- OCLC:
- 475454120
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