The permissive society
Subtitle: America, 1941-1965
By: Alan Cecil Petigny.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780521888967; 9780521757225
Subjects: Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Liberalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-; United States -- Moral conditions -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Rising expectations and the challenge from World War II; title: Psychology : Benjamin Spock, Carl Rogers, and the liberalizing impulse in the 1950s; title: Religion : ballrooms, bingo, blue laws, and Billy Graham : piety and secularization in 1950s America; title: Sex : Ingrid Bergman, Elizabeth Taylor, and the sexual revolution in the postwar period; title: Women : the rising status of women in the age of Eisenhower; title: The youth culture : rock 'n roll, blue jeans, and the myth of opposition; title: From original sin to self actualization : Jackson Pollock, Charlie Parker, and new notions of identity in postwar America; title: Epilogue: The social revolution of the 1970s : the social revolution of the late sixties and early seventies.