Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (778 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071746SGL |
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| Number of Pages | : | 327 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She is the author of No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980 (2007). Natasha Zaretsky is associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University
Using the accident to explore this turning point, Natasha Zaretsky provides a fresh interpretation of the era by disclosing how atomic and ecological imaginaries shaped the conservative ascendancy.Drawing on the testimony of the men and women who lived in the shadow of the reactor, Radiation Nation shows that the region's citizens, especially its mothers, grew convinced that they had sustained radiological injuries that threatened their reproductive futures. Taking inspiration from the antiwar, environmental, and feminist movements, women at Three Mile Island crafted a homegrown ecological politics that wove together concerns over radiological threats to the body, the struggle over abortion and reproductive rights, and eroding trust in authority. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation Nation tells the story of what happened that day and in the months and years that followed, as local residents tried to make sense of the emergency. On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. The near-
(Jeremy Varon, the New School) . Centered on Three Mile Island, it is actually a chronicle of postwar America, touching on everything from atomic-age anxieties, to declining faith in expertise, to the long-grinding pessimism of the 'anthropocene.' It is, in short, brilliant, among the best works of history I have read in years. This is an epic book, speaking to grand stakes