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• catalog abstract ""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.".
• catalog alternative "Community activism in suburban Queens, 1945-1965".
• catalog contributor b12848225.
• catalog coverage "Queens (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century.".
• catalog created "c2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "c2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
• catalog description ""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.".
• catalog description "Citizenship 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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-239) and index.".
• catalog extent "viii, 252 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0812237188 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Politics and culture in modern America".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "c2003.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,".
• catalog spatial "New York (State) New York".
• catalog spatial "Queens (New York, N.Y.) Social conditions 20th century.".
• catalog subject "305.42/09747/1 21".
• catalog subject "Community life New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "HQ1439.N6 M87 2003".
• catalog subject "Housewives New York (State) New York Political activity History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Housewives Political activity New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Middle class women New York (State) New York Political activity History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Middle class women Political activity New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Neighborhoods New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Social action New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog subject "Women in community organization New York (State) New York History 20th century.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Citizenship 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.".
• catalog title "Community activism in suburban Queens, 1945-1965".
• catalog title "The progressive housewife : community activism in suburban Queens, 1945-1965 / Sylvie Murray.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".