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Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

Every Home a Fortress: Cold War Fatherhood and the Family Fallout Shelter

Bishop, Thomas

Paperback

Series: Culture and Politics in the Cold War and Beyond

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Gender StudiesWeapons of Mass Destruction

ISBN10: 162534483X
ISBN13: 9781625344830
Publisher: Univ Of Massachusetts Pr
Published: May 29 2020
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Every Home a Fortress, Thomas Bishop details the remarkable cultural history and personal stories behind an iconic figure of Cold War masculinity--the fallout shelter father, who, with spade in hand and the canned goods he has amassed, sought to save his family from atomic warfare. Putting policy documents and presidential addresses into conversation with previously unmined personal letters, diaries, local media coverage, and antinuclear ephemera, Bishop demonstrates that the nuclear crisis years of 1957 to 1963 were not just pivotal for the history of international relations but were also a transitional moment in the social histories of the white middle class and American fatherhood. During this era, public concerns surrounding civil defense shaped private family conversations, and the fallout shelter emerged as a site at which ideas of nationhood, national security, and masculinity collided with the complex reality of trying to raise and protect a family in the nuclear age.

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