عنوان

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شابک

1613760140

شابک

9781613760147

شابک اشتباه

1558498052

شابک اشتباه

1558498060

شابک اشتباه

9781558498051

شابک اشتباه

9781558498068

عنوان اصلي

Perfectly average :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

the pursuit of normality in postwar America /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Anna G. Creadick.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Amherst :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Massachusetts Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2010.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (xii, 191 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

عنوان فروست

Culture, politics, and the Cold War

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

At the end of World War II, many Americans longed for a return to a more 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. But what did this term really mean? What were its parameters? Whom did it propose to include and exclude? In this work the author investigates how and why "normality" 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. She examines such evidence as the "Norm and Norma" models produced during the war by sexologists and anthropologists, statistical composites of "normal" American bodies. In 1945, as thousands of Ohio women signed up for a Norma Look-Alike contest. A "Harvard Study of Normal Men" sought to define the typical American male according to specific criteria, from body shape to upbringing to blood pressure. By the early 1950s, the "man in the gray flannel suit" had come to symbolize what some regarded as the stultifying sameness of the "normalized" middle class. Meanwhile, novels such as From Here to Eternity and Peyton Place both supported and challenged normative ideas about gender, race, and sexuality, even as they worked to critique the postwar culture of surveillance, watching and being watched, through which normalizing power functioned. As efforts to define normality became increasingly personal, the tensions embedded in its binary logic multiplied: Was "normal" descriptive of an average or prescriptive of an ideal? In the end, the author shows that a variety of statistics, assumptions, and aspirations converged to recast "normality" not as something innate or inborn, but rather as a quality to be actively pursued, a standard at once highly seductive and impossible to achieve because it required becoming perfectly average.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctt5n1cmw

عنوان

Perfectly average.

موضوع مستند نشده

Body image-- Social aspects-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Community life-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle class-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

National characteristics, American.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sex in popular culture-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

موضوع مستند نشده

Body image-- Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

Civilization.

موضوع مستند نشده

Community life.

موضوع مستند نشده

Middle class.

موضوع مستند نشده

National characteristics, American.

موضوع مستند نشده

Sex in popular culture.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social conditions

موضوع مستند نشده

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Civilization, 1945-

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Social conditions, 1945-

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, history, 20th century

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

2

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

HIS036000

موضوع مستند نشده

SOC000000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Creadick, Anna G.,1967-

تاريخ عمليات

20200823043203.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y