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‘The World is Her Home’: The Role of Women Volunteers in Dutch Civil Defence in the 1950s and 1960s (2021)

Lente, Dick van (Author)

Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2021
Language: English

ISBN: 9783030842819

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Cold War Women Sociotechnical imaginaries Civil defense Nuclear warfare Technology and society Netherlands

This chapter describes, and attempts to explain, the contrast between a successful campaign by women volunteers to prepare women for protecting their families in the event of nuclear war and the stumbling efforts of the official Dutch civil defence organisation. The explanation is sought in the perception (or sociotechnical imaginary) of these women of their role in the nuclear age, and the grassroots quality of their work, as opposed to the top-down views and practices of the civil defence organisation, in a society which had a low opinion of the government’s efficacy in the extreme emergency of a nuclear war. The chapter illustrates the influence of widespread and deeply engrained perceptions, such as trust in the government and gender stereotypes, on attitudes towards a new threat.

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