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100 1 $aMurray, Sylvie.
245 14 $aThe progressive housewife :$bcommunity activism in suburban Queens, 1945-1965 /$cSylvie Murray.
246 30 $aCommunity activism in suburban Queens, 1945-1965
260 $aPhiladelphia :$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$cc2003.
300 $aviii, 252 p. :$bmaps ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aPolitics and culture in modern America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) and index.
505 0 $aCitizenship and middle-class politics in the postwar era -- The formation of suburban Queens. "Queens has a street named Utopia" -- Housing and access to middle-class status -- Suburban radicals -- Political culture, political consciousness. Active citizenship and community needs in Queens -- The school crisis and citizens' view of metropolitan development -- As mothers or as parents? -- Turning points : gender and the middle class in the postwar era. Betty Friedan, the volunteers for Stevenson, and 1950s housewives -- Middle-class antiliberalism revisited.
520 1 $a"Fictional characters, such as June Cleaver, and criticism of suburban domestic passivity, notably Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, have profoundly shaped our popular and intellectual view of the immediate postwar decade. It is this image of apolitical domesticity and suburban conformity that Sylvie Murray challenges in The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965. Set in the rapidly developing neighborhoods of northeastern Queens - home of none other than Friedan herself in the early 1950s - this study traces the political activities of a diverse group of middle-class suburbanities and brings into focus the central role played by full-time mothers and housewives as community activists." "Like their famous neighbor, these Queens housewives were at the center of a vital network of civic organizations that used a variety of political strategies - from quiet lobbying to street protests - to build residential neighborhoods of quality. The battles they fought - to improve local schools and other public services, to stop the construction of public housing, and to control the cost and quality of rental housing, among others - cannot be easily pegged to the right or the left on the political spectrum. Rather, they reveal a profound conviction that both citizens and the state were responsible for the well-being of local communities."--Jacket.
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