1. So who wants to go torch the suburbs?
2. Is it odd that Cohen doesn't discuss Fordism? There are a few mentions of the postwar consensus between the UAW and the automakers -- what she calls "Fordist compromise" -- but no mention that the whole idea of a consumption-based economy in some ways goes back to Henry Ford and the $5 day.
3. If you're gonna use a TV program to bolster a point, shouldn't your argument be based on more than a single episode? I'm thinking here of Cohen's use of The Donna Reed Show, which revolves around a single episode that seems to support Cohen's argument about female deference but which seems out of step with the show overall, where Donna was one of the most assertive TV moms of the day and even sometimes went to work as a nurse.
Plus she's gorgeous and she founded an antiwar organization during the Vietnam years. Hey Lizabeth Cohen -- nobody puts Donna Reed in a corner!
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