Civil defense begins at home : militarization meets everyday life in the fifties /
Annotation 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 Mc...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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| Edice: | Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv15r577t |
Obsah:
- The dilemmas of planning and propaganda
- Living underground: the public politics of private shelters
- The nuclear family: militarizing domesticity, domesticating war
- Raising women's bomb consciousness
- "Equal in suffering": race, class, and the bomb.