Homeward bound: American families in the Cold War era
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0465030556
ISBN 13
9780465030552
Category
Publication Year
1988
Publisher
Pages
284
Subject
United States--Social conditions
Description
In the 1950s, the term ”containment” referred to the foreign policy-driven containment of Communism and atomic proliferation. Yet May demonstrates that there was also a domestic version of containment where the ”sphere of influence” was the home. 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.”--From Amazon
Number of Copies
1
