Civil Defense Begins at Home : : Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties / / Laura McEnaney.
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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McEnaney, Laura, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Civil Defense Begins at Home : Militarization Meets Everyday Life in the Fifties / Laura McEnaney. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020] ©2000 1 online resource (240 p.) : 9 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Politics and Society in Modern America ; 6 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 takes us into the secretive world of defense planners and the homes of ordinary citizens to explore how postwar civil defense turned the front lawn into the front line. The reliance on atomic weaponry as a centerpiece of U.S. foreign policy cast a mushroom cloud over everyday life. American citizens now had to imagine a new kind of war, one in which they were both combatants and targets. It was the Federal Civil Defense Administration's job to encourage citizens to adapt to their nuclear present and future.As McEnaney demonstrates, the creation of a civil defense program produced new dilemmas about the degree to which civilian society should be militarized to defend itself against internal and external threats. Conflicts arose about the relative responsibilities of state and citizen to fund and implement a home-front security program. The defense establishment's resolution was to popularize and privatize military preparedness. The doctrine of "self-help" defense demanded that citizens become autonomous rather than rely on the federal government for protection. Families would reconstitute themselves as paramilitary units that could quash subversion from within and absorb attack from without.Because it solicited an unprecedented degree of popular involvement, the FCDA offers a unique opportunity to explore how average citizens, community leaders, and elected officials both participated in and resisted the creation of the national security state. Drawing on a wide variety of archival sources, McEnaney uncovers the broad range of responses to this militarization of daily life and reveals how government planners and ordinary people negotiated their way at the dawn of the atomic age. Her work sheds new light on the important postwar debate about what total military preparedness would actually mean for American society. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Feb 2021) Civil defense United States. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. bisacsh 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. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843558?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843558 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400843558.jpg |
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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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