[ SECRET POST #2929 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2929 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Being a girl in US during 50s

[(Anonymous)]

I saw a documentary where they were talking about there being a concerted effort (I think even by the government) to "re-assimilate" women back into "proper" place after they were allowed to work during WWII in factories. A lot of women felt really independent about that and wanted to continue. That's why there was such a Suzie Homemaker type image in the 50s (with Leave it to Beaver and the like) to get women back into the home.

Re: Being a girl in US during 50s

[(Anonymous)]

Indeed, one of the major chapters in The Feminine Mystique was about the manifestation of that social enforcement in the fiction in women's magazines. After the war, those stories shifted from women making their own choices and doing their own thing to women accepting their proper roles.

In my end of geekery, it's worth noting that of all the superheroines who appeared during the initial WWII-era comics boom, only ONE survived to the 1950s, and that's only because the contract for Wonder Woman specifies she can't ever be taken out of publication or they lose the rights to the character. Admittedly, MOST of the wartime superheroes stopped being published after the war, but it's interesting that EVERY female superhero did.

Point is, you can see that shift in enforcement all over the place. Historically, it's pretty interesting.