A revised edition of the classic, myth-shattering exploration of American family life during the Cold War.
WhenHomeward Boundfirst 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, andHomeward Boundhas 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.
Elaine Tyler Mayis the Regents Professor in the Departments of American Studies and History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author books including
America and the Pill,
Homeward Bound, and
Barren in the Promised Land, which received Honorable Mention for the William J. Goode Book Award. The former president of the American Studies Association and the Organization of American Historians, May has contributed to
Ms., the
Los Angeles Times, the
New York Times, and the
Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. A major addition to the literature on the history of the family [that] significantly enhances our understanding of American society in the 1950s.
-New York Times As Elaine Tyler May...has explained, marriage was not necessarily a positive expression of love or family values in the '50s; it was also an expedient means of 'containing' sex among the young.
-Frank Rich,New Republic Skillfully piecing together a social history of sex roles and mores governing data, parenting, birth control, consumerism, and divorce from the Depression to the late '60s, May supports her thesis with a wide range of unusual evidence, from HollylĂ6
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