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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
recognize their increasing sexual and economic emancipation, but to channel those energies into the family.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
domestic containment—how
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
I chose security over everything else.”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
ideology and public policies that it spawned were crucial in shaping postwar family life and gender roles.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
female sexuality was a central part of the good life that both systems claimed to espouse.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
THE POLITICS of the cold war and the