Elaine Tyler May

American Families in the Cold War Era

Homeward Bound

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns than citizens of any other country, sequester themselves in gated communities, and retreat from public spaces. And yet, crime rates have plummeted, making life in America safer than ever. Why, then, are Americans so afraid-and where does this fear lead to? In this remarkable work of social history, Elaine Tyler May demonstrates how our obsession with security has made citizens fear each other and distrust the government, making America less safe and less democratic. Fortress America charts the rise of a muscular national culture, undercutting the common good. Instead of a thriving democracy of engaged citizens, we have become a paranoid, bunkered, militarized, and divided vigilante nation.

How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned Democracy

Fortress America

Examines the social impact and consequences of "the pill," which was originally intended to help stop overpopulation, wipe out poverty, liberate women, and stabilize marriages, since the FDA's approval of the drug in 1960.

A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation

America and the Pill

Reexamines the fifties, discusses the connection between politics and family life, and explains why the baby boom generation rejected their parents' values

American Families In The Cold War Era

Professor of American Studies and History Elaine Tyler May

Reexamines the 1950's, discusses the connections between politics and family life, and explains why the baby boom generation rejected their parents' values

Vicki L. Ruiz

Thomas Borstelmann

Peter H. Wood

Jacqueline A. Jones

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A revised edition of the classic, myth-shattering exploration of American family life during the Cold War. When Homeward Bound first appeared in 1988, it forever changed how we understand Cold War America. Elaine Tyler May demonstrated that the Atomic Age and the Cold War shaped American life not just in national politics, but at every level of society, from the boardroom to the bedroom. Her notion of "domestic containment" is now the standard interpretation of the era, and Homeward Bound has become a classic. This new edition includes an updated introduction and a new epilogue examining the legacy of Cold War obsessions with personal and family security in the present day.

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.

The author traces the evolution of a national preoccupation with reproduction from colonial times to the present, focusing on such phenomena as the baby boom of the fifties and current attitudes toward infertility. By the author of Homeward Bound. National ad/promo. Tour.

Childless Americans And The Pursuit Of Happiness

Barren In The Promised Land

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the divorce rate in the United States rose by a staggering 2,000 percent. To understand this dramatic rise, Elaine Tyler May studied over one thousand detailed divorce cases. She found that contrary to common assumptions, divorce was not simply a by-product of women's increasing economic and sexual independence, or a rebellion against marriage. Rather, thwarted hopes for fulfillment in the public sphere drove both men and women to wed at a greater rate and to bring higher expectations to their marriages.

Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America

Great Expectations

Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.

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