Many women chose to marry and settle into new roles as mothers and housewives, but the Baby Boom forced the need for affordable housing - and fast. Bill to gain a college education and many entered the white collar job market, pushing out the women who had had those jobs during the war.
Women's fashion and gender expectations from this time period heavily influenced the Tradwife movement.įollowing World War Two, returning soldiers used the G.I. Today, the intensely gendered and socially regimented lives of the middle class of the time are a source of fear to an audience that lives in a post-second wave feminist world. This image was reflected in advertising, books, and television shows.ġ950s Suburbia imagery was used in the horror genre as early as 1959 (in The Twilight Zone) to indicate the uncanny or surreal. The ideal suburban neighborhood was a friendly community, where everyone looked and thought exactly the same way, and everyone was happy. The government led push for a return to normalcy (i.e., traditional gender roles) following World War Two, created an idealized image of the American family and the United States itself. The most famous example is Levittown, in New York state, which was the prototype for mass produced, mass-scale housing.
These communities were known as suburbs, thus the term suburbia.
Pyrex, Tupperware 1950s Suburbia describes the culture of the American middle class in the 1950s.ĭue to a population boom following World War Two, new neighborhoods were built in the areas surrounding large cities.
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