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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461814403321

Autore

Nickerson Michelle M

Titolo

Mothers of conservatism [[electronic resource] ] : women and the postwar right / / Michelle M. Nickerson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-37959-7

9786613379597

1-4008-4220-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Politics and society in twentieth-century America

Disciplina

320.082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century

Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century

Feminism - United States - History

Electronic books.

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

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 t