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Battling Miss Bolsheviki : the origins of female conservatism in the United States /

Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to rad...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Delegard, Kirsten
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Politics and culture in modern America.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Birth of "Miss Bolsheviki": Women, Gender, and the Red Scare
  • Chapter 2. The Origins of the Spider Web Chart: Women and the Construction of the Bolshevik Threat
  • Chapter 3. "It Takes Women to Fight Women": The Emergence of Female Antiradicalism
  • Chapter 4. Stopping the "Revolution by Legislation": Antiradicals Unite Against Social Welfare Reform
  • Chapter 5. The "Red Menace" Roils the Grass Roots: The Conservative Insurgency Reshapes Women's Organizations
  • Chapter 6. The Legacy of Female Antiradicalism
  • Epilogue: From Antiradicalism to Anticommunism
  • Acronyms for Archival Sources
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.