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Author:

Fraterrigo, Elizabeth.

Title:

Playboy and the making of the good life in modern America / Elizabeth Fraterrigo.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

vii, 295 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Playboy Enterprises.
Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
United States--Social conditions--1945-
United States--History--History--20th century.
Social change--United States--History--20th century.
Arts and society--United States--History--20th century.
Liberalism--History--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-286) and index.

Contents:

"We aren't a 'family magazine'": sex, gender, and the family ideal in postwar America -- "Work hard and play hard, too": modern living and the morality of the Playboy life -- Pads and penthouses: Playboy's urban answer to suburbanization -- The ideal (play)mate: gender, the workplace, and the single girl -- "For us it is the good life": the ascendant Playboy life -- "Casualties of the lifestyle revolution": Playboy, the permissive society and women's liberation.

ISBN:

0195386108 (acid-free paper)
9780195386103 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)316027977

LCCN:

2009011643

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

ETPD745 -- Emmetsburg Public Library (Emmetsburg)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)