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Postwar America (postwar + america)
Selected Abstracts"Enabled Courage": Race, Disability, and Black World War II Veterans in Postwar AmericaTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 5 2003Robert F. Jefferson First page of article [source] The Birth of the Patio Daddy-O: Outdoor Grilling in Postwar AmericaTHE JOURNAL OF AMERICAN CULTURE, Issue 1 2010Tim Miller First page of article [source] Looking through the Lens of Gender: A Postmodern Critique of a Modern Housing ParadigmJOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, Issue 2 2002Lucinda Kaukas Havenband M.A., M.Phil. ABSTRACT The shift from a modern to postmodern paradigm has dramatically impacted the nature and content of academic inquiry and has opened new categories and methods for research. Interior design has been traditionally critiqued on the basis of aesthetics, formal qualities, function, health and safety, and social/behavioral factors. A postmodern critique expands that criteria to include analysis of how designs may be inscribed with particular ideologies and meanings and consideration of how these meanings may empower or disempower certain groups, or philosophies. In a feminist critique, that analysis considers specifically the ideology of gender. This paper will demonstrate the use of the postmodern deconstructive method of "close reading" in a feminist critique of the Case Study program, a paradigm for modern housing in postwar America. A close reading makes the assumption that the text is not neutral and attempts to discover its biases by thoroughly examining how information has been edited, framed, explained, and constructed. Through this method every aspect of the design process as it has been documented will be scrutinized as texts to examine ideas about roles for women that are constructed through this method; it will not only demonstrate how ideological issues, specifically in this case about gender, can be inscribed within our designs for built spaces, but also provide a greater awareness of our ability as designers to perpetuate, create, or eliminate stereotypes. [source] A Merger of Movements: Peace and Civil Rights Activism in Postwar MiamiPEACE & CHANGE, Issue 2 2010Raymond A. Mohl This article suggests the importance of studying local peace movements in postwar America, as civil rights historians have been doing for two decades. The article also argues that peace and civil rights often reflected the same progressive impulse for social justice,thus the importance of exploring the relationships and interconnections between the two movements. This case study of peace and civil rights in postwar Miami documents the role of politically progressive Jews, especially Jewish women, in forging a social justice movement focused on peace, civil liberties, and civil rights. Mostly newcomers from northern cities, a small group of activist Jews played a major organizational role in local branches of such civil rights and peace groups as the Civil Rights Congress, the Congress of Racial Equality, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and Women Strike for Peace. For those who chose the activist path, peace and civil rights became inseparable components of a local social justice crusade challenging racial segregation and national Cold War policies. [source] | ||||||||||