{"id":1691,"date":"2009-10-20T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:38:12","slug":"friends-of-the-library-speaker-series-october-27-information-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2009\/10\/20\/friends-of-the-library-speaker-series-october-27-information-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Library Speaker Series &#8211; TODAY @ Information Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-top: 5px;float: left;margin-right: 10px;border-width: 1px\" src=\"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/files\/2010\/10\/FraterrigoRV.jpg\" alt=\"outliers\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> Exploring the world created in the pages of the popular men\u2019s magazine,Loyola University professor of history <strong>Dr. Elizabeth Fraterrigo<\/strong> will trace Playboy\u2019s development in the context of a society in transition.  Sexual mores, gender roles, family life, notion of consumption, and national purpose\u2014all were in flux as Americans adjusted to the prosperity that followed World War II. Initially Playboy promised on \u201centertainment for men,\u201d but its vision of abundance, pleasure, and individual freedom influenced generations of men and women and decades of pop culture, including food, fashion, jazz, and literature.<\/p>\n<p>Featured Book:<br \/>\n<strong> Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Date &amp; Location:<br \/>\n<strong>Wednesday, October 27, 2010, 6:00 p.m. <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Richard Klarchek Information Commons, 4th Floor<br \/>\nLake Shore Campus<br \/>\n1032 West Sheridan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free admission. Immediately following the presentation, the Dr. Fraterrigo will be available to sign copies of her book.  For more information please contact Carol Franklin at <a href=\"mailto:cfrankl@luc.edu\">cfrankl@luc.edu<\/a> or 773-508-2641.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring the world created in the pages of the popular men\u2019s magazine,Loyola University professor of history Dr. Elizabeth Fraterrigo will trace Playboy\u2019s development in the context of a society in transition. Sexual mores, gender roles, family life, notion of consumption, and national purpose\u2014all were in flux as Americans adjusted to the prosperity that followed World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7113,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/7113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}