American Decades
"The Two-Income Family"
Magazine article
By: Harper's Magazine
Date: December 1951
Source: "The Two-Income Family" Harper's Magazine, December, 1951. Reprinted in Kennedy, David M., ed. The American Spirit. Vol. 2, 10th ed., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002, 399–400.
About the Publication: Harper's debuted in 1850, quickly becoming a mass-market magazine featuring American artists and the news of the period. Harper's has published works by significant political figures in their youth, including Winston Churchill. In the 1970s, Harper's was one of the first magazines to cover the My Lai massacre. Harper's publishing interests are now HarperCollins, and Harper's is now published by the Harper's Magazine Foundation, which was formed with assets from a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Introduction
Women and men have not been...
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1950's Lifestyles and Social Trends Primary Sources
- Communist Paranoia
- Chesterfield Cigarettes Advertisements
- "The Two-Income Family"
- "Homogenized Children of New Suburbia"
- Seduction of the Innocent
- Davy Crockett
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- "Situations Wanted"
- The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
- "Howl"
- "Difference Between Victory and Defeat"
- "The Colossal Drive-In"
- The American Teenager
- The Other America
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
