ewalks, represented something new. It was not, as common wisdom tells us, the last gasp of "traditional" family life with deep roots in the past. Rather, it was the first wholehearted effort to create a home that would fulfill all its members' personal needs through an energized and expressive personal life (11).
The perspective taken by May is based on the conclusion that "domestic containment," a phrase which summarizes the portrait on the cover of her book. Because of the uncertainties of the Cold War era, the young adults of that time sought comfort in the home, but because of those same uncertainties, particularly the nuclear threat, those same young adults bec
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