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Shelter Against Communism

Helen Hester and Nick Srnicek

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Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., Levittown houses. Peg Brennan, residence at 25 Winding Lane, 1958. Source: Library of Congress.

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Notes
1

See, for instance: Lisa Adkins, Melinda Cooper, and Martijn Konings, The Asset Economy (Cambridge: Polity, 2020); David Harvey, The Limits to Capital (London: Verso Books, 2006).

2

Richard Lacayo, “Suburban Legend: William Levitt,” Time, July 3, 1950, .

3

Robert Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016), 504.

4

Stephanie Coontz, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap (New York: Basic Books, 2016), 209–210.

5

Marion Roberts, Living in a Man-Made World: Gender Assumptions in Modern Housing Design (London: Routledge, 1991), 103.

6

Dolores Hayden, Redesigning the American Dream: Gender, Housing and Family Life, 2nd Edition (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2002), 25; Rebecca May Johnson, “I Dream of Canteens,” Dinner Document (blog), April 30, 2019, .

7

Roberts, Living in a Man-Made World, 103.

8

Dolores Hayden, Grand Domestic Revolution: History of Feminist Designs for American Homes, Neighbourhoods and Cities (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996), 23.

9

Hayden, 23.

10

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (London: Free Association Books, 1989).

11

Ruth Schwartz Cowan, “From Virginia Dare to Virginia Slims: Women and Technology in American Life,” Technology and Culture 20, no. 1 (1979): 59.

12

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Home: Its Work and Influence (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016), 18.

13

Gordon, The Rise and Fall of American Growth, 357.

14

Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev, “The Kitchen Debate (Online Transcript)” (Moscow, Russia, July 24, 1959), .

15

Nixon and Khrushchev.

16

Sylvia Faichney, “Advertising Housework: Labor and the Promotion of Pleasure in 1970s Domestic Interiors,” Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry, September 22, 2017, .

17

Nancy H. Kwak, A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid (Chicago London: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 53–54.

18

Kwak, 51.

19

Kwak, 60.

20

Ibid.

21

Leslie Weisman, Discrimination by Design: A Feminist Critique of the Man-Made Environment (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 132.