AP U.S. History / Unit 8: Period 8: 1945–1980
8.5 Culture After 1945
Notes
Conformity and consumer culture (TV, suburbs) coexisted with critics: the Beat Generation, rock and roll, and concerns about women's roles (later The Feminine Mystique). Religion and anticommunism were also strong.
Practice
The Beat Generation:
Kerouac, Ginsberg.
Television in the 1950s helped spread:
Mass media.
The Feminine Mystique (1963) described:
Betty Friedan.
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