Playboy and the making of the good life in modern America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fraterrigo, Elizabeth
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Playboy Enterprises. Playboy (Chicago, Ill.) United States > Social conditions > 1945- United States > Moral conditions > History > 20th century. Social change > United States > History > 20th century. Arts and society > United States > History > 20th century. Liberalism > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.

Table of Contents:

"We aren't a 'family magazine'": sex, gender, and the family ideal in postwar America
"Work hard and play hard, too": modern living and the morality of the Playboy life
Pads and penthouses: Playboy's urban answer to suburbanization
The ideal (play)mate: gender, the workplace, and the single girl
"For us it is the good life": the ascendant Playboy life
"Casualties of the lifestyle revolution": Playboy, the permissive society and women's liberation.