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Homeward Bound

Paperback • 1990 • English • 58696. edition

Homeward Bound: American Families In The Cold War Era

By Elaine Tyler May

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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 liv...Show more

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ISBN

9780465030552

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

1990

Language

English

Edition

58696

Original title

Homeward Bound

Format

Paperback

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