Introduction : homemaking for the apocalypse : compulsory normativity, banality, and horror -- Die, dig, or get out : or, stop worrying and love the bomb -- "You can protect your family" : common prudence, survival insurance, and fallout shelters -- The Madonna of the suburbs : the ludicrous horrors of everyday life -- "...we are already but one step removed from pod people" : compulsory ableism and the revenge of the lawn in postwar suburbia -- Population bombs and baby boom : overpopulation as apocalypse -- Conclusion : apocalypse now-ish : (still) domesticating horror.
Summary:
"In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature ; 135
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