Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Along with the invigorated stature of public officials, security concerns created heroes among firefighters and law enforcement officers, who suddenly achieved a newly exalted stature.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
was their hope for their children.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Russians could destroy the United States not only by atomic attack but through internal subversion.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
She decided that she would never deprive her own children that way.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
It is clear that in the later years of the cold war, the domestic ideology and cold war militance rose and fell together. Immediately after World War II, stable family life seemed necessary for national security, civil defense, and the struggle for supremacy over the Soviet Union.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
We worry about the children while we’re at work.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
The sexual containment ideology was rooted in widely accepted gender roles that defined men as breadwinners and women as mothers.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
It was fine to have ambitions, but it was another matter to work out of necessity, face a sex-segregated job market, and do double duty at home as well.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Consensus academics articulated the need for tough men of will in politics, using prose laden with metaphors of sexual prowess.