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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818458703321

Autore

Castledine Jacqueline L

Titolo

Cold war progressives : women's interracial organizing for peace and freedom / / Jacqueline Castledine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, Ill., : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-73540-7

0-252-09443-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Women in American history

Disciplina

305.420973

Soggetti

Feminism - United States - History - 20th century

Second-wave feminism - United States

Women's rights - United States - History - 20th century

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

Peace movements - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Gender, politics, and the emerging Cold War -- Progressive feminisms -- Progressive mothers -- "Battleships, atom bombs, and lynch ropes" -- Cold war legacies -- From the popular front to a new left -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In recognizing the relation between gender, race, and class oppression, American women of the post-war Progressive Party argued that peace required the presence of social and political equality. This study maps the routes taken by post-war popular front women activists into peace and freedom movements of the 1960's and 1970's.