In Homemaking for the Apocalypse, Jill E. Anderson interrogates patterns of Atomic Age conformity that controlled the domestic practices and private activities of Americans. Used as a way to promote security in a period rife with anxieties about nuclear annihilation and The Bomb, these narratives of domesticity were governed by ideals of compulsory normativity, and their circulation upheld the wholesale idealization of homemaking within a white, middle-class nuclear family and all that came along with it: unchecked reproduction, constant consumerism, and a general policing of practices deemed contradictory to normative American life. Homemaking for the apocalypse seeks out the disruptions to the domestic ideals found in memoirs, Civil Defense literature, the fallout shelter debate, horror films, comics, and science fiction, engaging in elements of horror in order to expose how closely domestic practices are tied to dread and anxiety. Homemaking for the Apocalypse offers a narrative of the Atomic Age that calls into question popular memory's acceptance of the conformity thesis and proposes new methods for critiquing the domestic imperative of the period by acknowledging its deep tie to horror.
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Homemaking for the Apocalypse
Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media
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Homemaking for the Apocalypse
Domesticating Horror in Atomic Age Literature & Media
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Homemaking for the Apocalypse: Compulsory Normativity, Banality, and Horror
- 1. Die, Dig, or Get Out: Or, Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
- 2. “You Can Protect Your Family”: Common Prudence, Survival Insurance, and Fallout Shelters
- 3. The Madonna of the Suburbs: The Ludicrous Horrors of Everyday Life
- 4. “…we are already but one step removed from pod people”: Compulsory Ableism and the Revenge of the Lawn in Postwar Suburbia
- 5. Population Bombs and Baby Boom: Overpopulation as Apocalypse
- 6. Conclusion: Apocalypse Now-ish: (Still) Domesticating Horror
- Bibliography
- Index
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