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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827731303321

Autore

Rymph Catherine E

Titolo

Republican women : feminism and conservatism from suffrage through the rise of the new right / / Catherine E. Rymph

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

979-88-908737-7-4

0-8078-7697-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 p.)

Collana

Gender and American culture

Disciplina

324.2734/082

Soggetti

Women - Political activity - United States

Conservatism - United States - History

Feminism - United States - History

Women political activists - United States

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 (p. [309]-326) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Party Women and the Dilemmas of Women's Suffrage; 2. So Many Joan of Arcs: The Political Style of Independent Clubwomen; 3. Playing the Man's Game: Marion Martin and the Creation of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs; 4. The Return of the Female Political Crusade; 5. The Housework of Government; 6. To Be Neutral or Neutralized?: Republican Women and the Goldwater Campaign; 7. The Rise of Republican Feminism; 8. Going Down in Flames: Republican Feminism and the Rise of the New Right; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Index

Sommario/riassunto

Explores the dilemmas confronting progressive, conservative, and moderate Republican women as they sought to achieve a voice for themselves within the Grand Old Party (GOP). This book examines women's grassroots organizing for the party, in the decades following the initiation of women's suffrage.