HIST 2506 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Prenatal Care, Day Care, Double Burden
14 Apr 2016
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Mass culture: people living more like one another for the first time, records and record players, products became marketed to young people. Rock n" roll, blue jeans youth was the target audience. Marshall plan propaganda: economic aid, flooding of american money in europe, as well as cultural products in france, e. g. New kind of social contract: america offered new way of looking at individuals freedom through consumption and material prosperity. Lecture 19 - postwar: holding up image of american women very important idea of kitchen, idea of american women very political, kitchen debate with nixon and khrushchev, communists disagreed w/ this consumer system (capitalism) Freedom through consumption what america offered after the war. Us has a strong economy coming out of the war. Changes happen earlier ussr: for people in the ussr, having a government change the role of women based on what they need at that time is not new.
