Homeward Bound by Elaine Tyler May addresses two ideologies that were rampant during the 1950s, immediately after the conclusion of the Second World War. These ideologies were anti-communism and suburban domesticity, both of which Americans sought to resolve through marriage and parenthood in a suitable, stable family. May finds that internal awakening was key to confronting "Cold War ideology"; his book seeks to discover why postwar Americans viewed family stability as a means to resolve the threat of communism at the time. It was, as you describe; "the intense need of postwar Americans to feel liberated from the past and secure in the future." She believes that “domestic confinement” originated in the 1930s and 1940s, when people began to see the family structure in two different ways, “one with two breadwinners sharing duties and the other with spouses whose roles were clearly differentiated." The society of the time chose the latter. Things like New Deal programs aimed to improve job opportunities for men. The American dream was within reach at that moment...