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Record Nr.

UNINA9910166655103321

Autore

Brennan Mary C

Titolo

Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / / Mary C. Brennan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Press of Colorado, 2008

Boulder, Colo. : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2008

©2008

ISBN

9781607327165

1607327163

9781457110986

1457110989

9780870819810

087081981X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

320.52092/273

320.52092273

Soggetti

Communism - United States - Prevention

Conservatism - United States - History

Women conservatives - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Social life and customs 20th century

United States Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.

Sommario/riassunto

In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.  Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth



Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in which these women functioned and the ways in which women saw communism as a very real danger to domestic security and American families. Millions of women, Brennan notes, expanded their notions of ho