Post WWII Gender Relations

During the late 1940s and 1950s a growing dissatisfaction arose in American society over many issues, from growing greed and hypocrisy to military battles and the battle of the sexes. Much of this dissatisfaction was chronicled by the Beat generation, but it would spill over into mass movements in the 1960s, including both the Civil Rights and the Women's Movement. As Ginsberg (1945, p. 228) writes in the scathing social critique America, "America when will we end the human war? / Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb, / I don't feel good." This sentiment was a growing one in America post-WWII.

One of the biggest battles during the 1950s and 1960s would be between the sexes. Traditionally in American society, a woman's place was firmly rooted in the household or domestic sp

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