Her teaching and research interests focus on the history of gender and race in modern America. She regularly teaches an undergraduate history course on Twentieth Century Youth Culture and is currently writing a monograph entitled Beauty Culture Battlegrounds: Race, Sex, and America’s Redefinition of the Feminine Ideal, 1945–1972. Dr. McAndrew wishes to thank the many colleagues, including the two anonymous reviewers for the JHCY, who helped her to rethink and revise the this essay.