Civil Defense Begins at Home : Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties /

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Dad built a bomb shelter in the backyard, Mom stocked the survival kit in the basement, and the kids practiced ducking under their desks at school. This was family life in the new era of the A-bomb. This was civil defense. In this provocative work of social and political history, Laura McEnaney take...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McEnaney, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]
Colección:Politics and Society in Modern America ; 6
Temas:
Civil defense > United States.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
Advertising Council.
American Legion.
Blue Book.
Brown, Jeanetta.
Congress of Racial Equality.
Crosby, Bing.
Ebony.
Federal Civil Defense Act.
Gaither Committee.
Grandma's Pantry.
Hickey, Margaret.
Houghton, Dorothy.
Impelletteri, Vincent.
Kassalow, Everett.
Korean War.
LaGuardia, Fiorello.
Lapp, Ralph.
Mitchell, Clarence.
New Look.
Operation Alert.
Parade.
Powner family.
Project Hideaway.
Randolph, A. Philip.
Roosevelt, Eleanor.
Sputnik.
Terrell, Mary Church.
Warden Service.
Women in Civil Defense.
domestication.
duck and cover.
feminine mystique.
maternalism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Dilemmas of Planning and Propaganda
  • CHAPTER TWO. Living Underground: The Public Politics of Private Shelters
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Nuclear Family: Militarizing Domesticity, Domesticating War
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Raising Women's Bomb Consciousness
  • CHAPTER FIVE. "Equal in Suffering": Race, Class, and the Bomb
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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