Homeward Bound
American Families in the Cold War Era
Published on 23. September 2008
320 pages
978-0-7867-2346-1 (ISBN)
Description
In the 1950s, the term "containment" referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet in Homeward Bound May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the "sphere of influence" was the home. Within its walls, potentially dangerous social forces might be tamed, securing the fulfilling life to which postwar women and men aspired. Homeward Bound tells the story of domestic containment - how it emerged, how it affected the lives of those who tried to conform to it, and how it unraveled in the wake of the Vietnam era's assault on Cold War culture, when unwed mothers, feminists, and "secular humanists" became the new "enemy." This revised and updated edition includes the latest information on race, the culture wars, and current cultural and political controversies of the post-Cold War era.
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Elaine T. May
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Elaine Tyler May is the Regents Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota. The award-winning author of five books and the former president of the American Studies Association, May lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 CONTAINMENT AT HOME: COLD WAR, WARM HEARTH
- 2 DEPRESSION: HARD TIMES AT HOME
- 3 WAR AND PEACE: FANNING THE HOME FIRES
- 4 EXPLOSIVE ISSUES: SEX, WOMEN, AND THE BOMB
- 5 BRINKMANSHIP: SEXUAL CONTAINMENT ON THE HOME FRONT
- 6 BABY BOOM AND BIRTH CONTROL: THE REPRODUCTIVE CONSENSUS
- 7 THE COMMODITY GAP: CONSUMERISM AND THE MODERN HOME
- 8 HANGING TOGETHER: FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
- 9 THE END OF CONTAINMENT: THE BABY BOOM COMES OF AGE
- EPILOGUE POST-COLD WAR AMERICA
- About the Author
- Also By Elaine Tyler May
- Praise For "Homeward Bound
- Appendices
- Notes
- Index
