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Mothers of conservatism : women and the postwar right /

Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local educatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nickerson, Michelle M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2012.
Colección:Politics and society in twentieth-century America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of women who developed political styles and practices around their domestic routines. From the conservative movement's origins in the early fifties through the presidential election of 1964, Nickerson documents how women shaped conservatism from the bottom up, out of the fabric of their daily lives and into the agenda of the Republican Party. A unique history of the American conservative movement, this book shows how housewives got out of the house and discovered their political capital.
Descripción Física:300 1 online resource (xxvi, 231 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400842209
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