American Dreams and Homeward Bound

American Dreams and Homeward Bound

Elaine Tyler May traces the emergence of a powerful ideology of family and home in the postwar years, which was directly related to the ideology of the Cold War geopolitics. That for the central role of deterrence in the context as an ideology: national security depends on the internal stability of containing dangerous social forces. It is within conservative ideology was not a "last gasp" of the traditional hierarchy of the sexes, but a new culture based on sexual inner satisfaction and consumer-oriented personal life, which stands as an anchor for insecurity and instability in world politics (Elaine, 2008).

The period of American history extends from 1945 to 1964 was characterized by a very active foreign policy, guided by the desire to contain a statement of communism worldwide. From the internal point of view, after a short transition period ", the economy began to grow rapidly. At this time the country attained its present size in 1959 when Hawaii became the fiftieth state. In the socio- cultural, the period was fairly conservative, dominated by the ideal of family life in suburban areas. level of education have grown explosively. Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union was the common denominator of the years fifty. Earlier this decade, both countries had nuclear weapons and took the race in which the superpowers tried to outdo each other by introducing new weapons, more powerful.

Threatening a devastating nuclear war, began to exert pressure on the world. May begins with the previous point of randomness: the era of the Depression and World War II years. May argues that greater individual autonomy of women during the Great Depression represents a lost opportunity for alternative ideology to develop along the lines of "dual breadwinner" model. Instead, the New Deal did not go far enough to correct labor inequality and popular culture could not reconcile the dual identity of the recipients of the mother and wages. During the war, large-scale entry of women in the workplace also provides an opportunity for greater equality, but in the end, an alarm at the end of the war - the nuclear threat, sexual deviancy as a threat to the American system (often associated with communism) and the deployment of a man returning home from the front and want to regain power - turn led women to the house and not in the workplace (Elaine, 2008).

Strenghts

As noted in The Homewar Bound, the Americans behaved with remarkable correspondence in these years. Most couples who married in 1940 and in 1950 completed his family, then they were in the thirties. With this hand, and the American people to get married and build families at a pace so fast that it's obvious why this ad in a wheelchair as versatile as it is to draw attention to his readers. This is a product that people need and want. This statement is important because it supports pronatalism or belief in the positive value of having several ...