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Perfectly averagethe pursuit of norm...

Creadick, Anna G., (1967-)

Perfectly averagethe pursuit of normalityin postwar America /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Perfectly averageAnna G. Creadick.
Reminder of title:	the pursuit of normalityin postwar America /
Author:	Creadick, Anna G.,
Published:	Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press,c2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 191 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Community lifeHistory20th century.United States
Subject:	United States
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781613760147 (electronic bk.)

Perfectly averagethe pursuit of normalityin postwar America /
Creadick, Anna G.,1967-

Perfectly averagethe pursuit of normalityin postwar America /[electronic resource] :Anna G. Creadick. - Amherst :University of Massachusetts Press,c2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 191 p.) :ill. - Culture, politics, and the Cold War. - Culture, politics, and the cold war..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to amore normal way of life after decades of depression and war. In fact, between 1945 and 1963 the idea of "normality" circulated as a keyword in almost every aspect of American culture. In Perfectly Average, Anna Creadick investigates how and why this concept reemerged as a potent homogenizing category in postwar America. Working with scientific studies,material culture, literary texts, film, fashion, and the mass media, she charts the pursuit of the "normal" through thematic chapters on the body, character, class, sexuality, and community." ""Anna Creadick discovers an extraordinary archive.

ISBN: 9781613760147 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

623092
Community life
--History--United States--20th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

236377
United States

LC Class. No.: E169.12 / .C67 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 973.918

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