Full name: Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era

Author: Elaine Tyler May Year: 1969 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Feminism Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465030552 0465030556

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. Similar books: Mayday by Michael Beschloss Grand Expectations by James T. Patterson The Cold War by Martin Walker The Cold War by Odd Arne Westad The Marshall Plan by Benn Steil The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler America's Women by Gail Collins Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz Imperial Leather by Anne McClintock In The Time Of The Americans by David Fromkin City of Women by Christine Stansell Seductress by Elizabeth Prioleau Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown The United States and the Origins of the Cold War by John Lewis Gaddis Women of the Republic by Linda K. Kerber A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure by Nan Enstad One Hell of a Gamble by Aleksandr Fursenko Restless Giant by James T. Patterson Age of McCarthyism by Ellen Schrecker