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Perfectly average : the pursuit of normalityin postwar America

Record Type:	Electronic resources : monographic
Title Information:	the pursuit of normalityin postwar America
Author:	CreadickAnna G., 1967-
Secondary Intellectual Responsibility:	Project Muse
Place of Publication:	Amherst
Published:	University of Massachusetts Press;
Year of Publication:	c2010
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 191 p.)ill. :
Series:	Culture, politics, and the Cold War
Subject:	Community life - History - United States - 20th century -
Subject:	Sex in popular culture - History - United States - 20th century -
Subject:	Middle class - History - United States - 20th century -
Subject:	Body image - Social aspects - United States - 20th century -
Subject:	National characteristics, American -
Subject:	United States - Social conditions - 1945- -
Subject:	United States - Civilization - 1945- -
Online resource:	http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781613760147/
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:	"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:	9781613760147electronic bk.
ISBN:	1613760140electronic bk.
ISBN:	9781558498068pbk.
ISBN:	1558498060pbk.
ISBN:	9781558498051hbk.
ISBN:	1558498052hbk.
Content Note:	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

Perfectly average : the pursuit of normalityin postwar America
Creadick, Anna G.

Perfectly average : the pursuit of normalityin postwar America / Anna G. Creadick - Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 191 p.) ; ill.. - (Culture, politics, and the Cold War).
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9781613760147ISBN 1613760140ISBN 9781558498068ISBN 1558498060ISBN 9781558498051ISBN 1558498052
Community lifeSex in popular cultureMiddle classBody imageNational characteristics, American -- History -- History -- History -- Social aspects -- United States -- United States -- United States -- United States -- 20th century -- 20th century -- 20th century -- 20th century

Perfectly average : the pursuit of normalityin postwar America
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