Who was Rosie the Riveter
The song Rosie the Riveter was already popular when Actor Walter Pidgeon discovered the real thing--Rose Will Monroe, a Ford employee who built B-24 and B-29 bombers at the Willow Run Assembly Plant in Michigan.
Rose went on to make war bond promotional films and was the inspiration for the Rosie the Riveter poster, symbolizing all U.S. women who worked in manufacturing jobs to support the World War II effort.
The perfect American male
Ronnie Reagan was consider the perfect example of the ideal masculine male. Divorced his "career" oriented wife Jane Wyman to marry Nancy Davis, an actress who promptly agreed to give up her career to be a full-time wife and mother.
Humbert's Lolita
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul, Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.
A Woman's Duty
"The ideological connections among early marriage, sexual containment, and traditional gender roles merged in the context of the cold war. Experts called upon women to embrace domesticity in service to the nation, in the same spirit that they had come to the contry's aid by taking wartime jobs. To meet the challenge of the postwar era, women were to marshall their energies into a "New Family Type for the Space Age." Women's domestic roles needed to be infused with a sense of national purpose."
J. Edgar Hoover
"The nation's women and children will never be secure...so long as degenerates run wild."
Thirteen Women (And Only One Man In Town)
Last night I was dreamin', dreamed about the H-bomb
Well, the bomber went off and I was caught
I was the only man left on the ground.
There was thirteen women and only one man in town.
And as funny as it may be, the one and only man in town was me
Well, thirteen women and me the only man around...
I had two gals every morning, seein' that I was well fed
And believe you me, one sweetened my tea
While another one buttered my bread
Two gals gave me my money, two gals made me my clothes
And another sweet thing bought me a diamond ring
About 40 carats I suppose...
I had three gals dancin' the mambo,
Three gals ballin' -the-jack
And all of the rest really did their best
Boy, they sure were a livley pack...
I thought I was in heaven, and all of these angels were mine
But I woke up and I head for the train
'Cause I had to get to work on time....
-Bill Haley and His Comets, 1954
Popular Culture
Bill Haley's song lyrics are an example of popular culture during the cold war that connected the unleashing of the atom and the unleashing of sex.
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