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Motherhood in Black and White : Race and Sex in American Liberalism, 1930-1965 /

The apron-clad, white, stay-at-home mother. Black bus boycotters in Montgomery, Alabama. Ruth Feldstein explains that these two enduring, yet very different, images of the 1950s did not run parallel merely by ironic coincidence, but were in fact intimately connected. What she calls "gender cons...

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Autor principal: Feldstein, Ruth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1. "The Women Have a Big Part to Play" Citizenship, Motherhood, and Race in New Deal Liberalism
  • 2. Racism as Un-American Psychology, Masculinity, and Maternal Failure in the 1940s
  • 3. "Politics in an Age of Anxiety" Cold War Liberalism and Dangers to Americans
  • 4. "I Wanted the Whole World To See" Constructions of Motherhood in the Death of Emmett Till
  • 5. "Imitation" Reconsidered Consuming Images in the Late 1950s
  • 6. Pathologies and Mystiques Revising Motherhood and Liberalism in the 1960s
  • Conclusion. Motherhood, Citizenship, and Political Culture
  • Notes
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index