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Introduction -- Gimme shelter: security in the atomic age -- The color of danger: from red to black -- Vigilante virtue: fantasy, reality, and the law -- Women: victims or villains? -- Locked up America: self-incarceration and the illusion of security -- Epilogue

Containment at home : Cold War, warm hearth -- Depression : hard times at home -- War and peace : fanning the home fires -- Explosive issues : sex, women, and the bomb -- Brinkmanship : sexual containment on the home front -- Baby boom and birth control : the reproductive consensus -- The commodity gap : consumerism and the modern home -- Hanging together : for better or for worse -- The end of containment : the baby boom comes of age

During WWII, women were encouraged to join the workforce in the US as men left jobs to join the armed forces. However, it is argued that traditional gender ideology kept women from fully embracing ideals of women's rights & employment as they identified themselves not just as workers, but also as wives, mothers, & girlfriends of absent men. The greatest social & economic freedoms women experienced during WWII were viewed as emergency measures only, not as a shift in societal mores. The dislocations of the war resulted in the desire for a return to domesticity & "normality" in the postwar period, reaffirming women's traditional roles as homemakers & mothers. J. Ferrari

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- I: The End of the Victorian Era (1890-1919) -- Prologue: As They Were -- 1 Women and the World -- 2 Women and the Home -- 3 Men and Manliness -- 4 In Time of War -- ll: The Modern Era (1920-1998) -- 5 New Generations -- 6 The Long Amnesia: Depression, War, and Domesticity -- 7 The Children of Domesticity -- 8 The Children of the Women's Movement -- Epilogue: As We Are Becoming -- Appendix A: The Female Labor Force, 1890-1990 -- Appendix B: Higher Education, 1870-1990 -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.