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The permissive society : America, 1941 - 1965 / Alan Petigny

Petigny, Alan Cecil, 1970-

1. publ.

Cambridge, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge University Press, c 2009

X, 292 S. : Ill. ; 24 cm

Englisch

Introduction : World War II, the ascendancy of science, and the prologue to the permissive turn -- Psychology : Benjamin Spock, Carl Rogers, and the liberalizing impulse in the 1950s -- Religion : ballrooms, bingo, blue laws, and Billy Graham : piety and secularization in 1950s America -- Sex : Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the sexual revolution in the postwar period -- Feminism : the rising status of women in the age of Eisenhower -- Youth culture : rock 'n' roll, blue jeans, and the myth of opposition -- The self : from original sin to self-actualization : Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, and new notions of identity in postwar America -- Denouement : the normative lag and the role of religion in the transformation of American culture.

Includes bibliographical references and index

eb 20240324 ; 2 (Rechtsgrundlage DE-4165)

0-521-75722-3 (pbk.); 0-521-88896-4 (hbk.); 978-0-521-75722-5 ( : pbk.); 978-0-521-88896-7 ( : hbk.)

2008049123

OCoLC: 699060993     

OCoLC: 699060993 (aus SWB)     

NW 2708      Ähnliche Literatur

HN58

306.0973/09045 ; 306.097309045

Basisklassifikation: 15.08 (Sozialgeschichte) ; 15.87 (USA) <Geschichte>

SSG-Nummer(n): 7,26

*USA ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Geschichte 1941-1965     Zum Register

LOC-SH: Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; Liberalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century ; United States -- Moral conditions -- 20th century ; Social change -- History -- 20th century -- United States ; Liberalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century -- United States ; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945- ; United States -- Moral conditions -- 20th century

USA ; Sozialer Wandel ; Liberalismus

Introduction: Rising expectations and the challenge from World War II -- Psychology : Benjamin Spock, Carl Rogers, and the liberalizing impulse in the 1950s -- Religion : ballrooms, bingo, blue laws, and Billy Graham : piety and secularization in 1950s America -- Sex : Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the sexual revolution in the postwar period -- Women : the rising status of women in the age of Eisenhower -- The youth culture : rock 'n roll, blue jeans, and the myth of opposition -- From original sin to self actualization : Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, and new notions of identity in postwar America -- Epilogue: The social revolution of the 1970s : the social revolution of the late sixties and early seventies