Looks at the role of women in postwar America, discussing the common perceptions of women at the time--including flappers and housewives--and illustrating how they were reflected in the magazines, catalogs, and films of the time.

Looks at the roles of American women in the 1950s and 1960s seen in the stereotypes of the attractive, attentive housewife and the educated working woman and illustrates how they were reflected in the magazines, television shows, and films of the time.

The jubilance of the Roaring Twenties was silenced by the stock market crash of 1929. Now the Great Depression challenged women in their homes, as Mrs. America had to learn how to "make do" with less. And as men left for battle fronts, World War II propelled women to take their place in factories, becoming Rosie the Riveter. As girls and women of the 1930s and 1940s searched for their own identities, the media of the times tried to influence their...