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Author May, Elaine Tyler.

Title Homeward bound : American families in the Cold War era / Elaine Tyler May.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [1988]
©1988
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  306.85 M466H    Check Shelf
Description xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 247-278.
Note Includes index.
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Containment at home : Cold War, warm hearth -- 2. Depression : hard times at home -- 3. War and peace : fanning the home fires -- 4. Explosive issues : sex, women, and the bomb -- 5. Brinkmanship : sexual containment on the home front -- 6. Baby boom and birth control : the reproductive consensus -- 7. The commodity gap : consumerism and the modern home -- 8. Hanging together : for better or for worse -- 9. Epilogue : The baby boom comes of age -- Notes -- Index.
Subject Families -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1945-
Baby boom generation -- United States.
ISBN 0465030548
9780465030545
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