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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Nickerson, Michelle M.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Patriotic daughters and isolationist mothers : conservative women in the early twentieth century
  • All politics was local : grassroots conservatism in postwar Los Angeles
  • Education or indoctrination? : conservative female activism in the Los Angeles public schools
  • "Siberia, U.S.A." : psychological experts and the state
  • The "conservative sex" : women and the building of a movement
  • Conclusion.