Week of March 26, Friday Lecture

I. Suburban Life

Pete Seeger, "Little Boxes"

• Sociability
• The Organization Man

IMAGE: The Gray Wool Suit

• Husband and Father

IMAGE: The Organization Man at Home
IMAGE: The Wife Looks On

• Wife and Mother

TEXT: How To Be a Perfect Wife
IMAGE: The Happy Homemaker

• Dating
• 50s Beauty & Fashion

IMAGE: Hair Curling
IMAGE: Accentuate the "Feminine"

• Sex
• Marriage
• Having the Kids

IMAGE: Suburban Family

• Popular Culture

IMAGE: The Andersons

• Intolerance

TEXT: Homosexuals in Government (from Congressional Record)

II. Cultural Norms and Social Reality Did Not Always Jive

III. Looking Homeward and Backward

Peter Seeger, "Talking Atom Blues"

IV. 50s Youth Culture

IMAGE: Elvis
IMAGE: Fats Domino
IMAGE: The Wild One
IMAGE: Rebel Without a Cause

V. Alienation...Not Rebellion

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