Playboy and the making of the good life in modern America
By: Elizabeth Fraterrigo.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780195386103
Subjects: Playboy Enterprises; Playboy (Chicago, Ill.); Social change -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Arts and society -- 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: 'We aren't a family magazine': sex, gender, and the family ideal in postwar America; title: 'Work hard and play hard, too': modern living and the morality of the Playboy life; title: Pads and penthouses: Playboy's urban answer to suburbanization; title: The ideal (play)mate: gender, work, and the single girl; title: 'For us it is the good life': the ascendant Playboy life; title: 'Casualties of the lifestyle revolution': Playboy, the permissive society and women's liberation.