Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.
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.
