Although the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and ’60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often
This study investigates the attitudes behind direct images of the military in TV, film, and comic books from the post-WWII era through the Vietnam era, encompassing military recruiting ads as well as
The motor scooter, so familiar a sight on the streets of cities throughout the world, can trace its ancestry back to the early years of the Twentieth century, but it really came into its own after th
First published in 1983, this book focuses on the twentieth-century writer as both a product, and an interpreter, of his or her society. It explores the social basis of our conceptions of literature a
While political tension defined one front of the Cold War, a creative conflict was waged on another.?The first book to offer an international perspective on the Cold War across the arts, this groundbr
Between 1945 and 1970, millions of public school students were subjected to hundreds of films designed to keep them on the straight and narrow. These cultural gems "enlightened" the nation's youth ab
Between 1945 and 1970, Florida became host to sweeping innovations in residential architecture rivaled only by what was happening in California with the Case Study Houses. Florida Modern documents th
Series: Routledge International HandbooksThe titles included here represent a broad range of both theoretical and empirical approaches to the subject of industrial, employee and workplace relations, a
