03115nam 2200661 a 450 991046181440332120210904005625.01-283-37959-797866133795971-4008-4220-4(CKB)2670000000139833(EBL)831898(SSID)ssj0000576040(PQKBManifestationID)11336156(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000576040(PQKBWorkID)10553313(PQKB)11397606(MiAaPQ)EBC831898(StDuBDS)EDZ0000406911(MdBmJHUP)muse43409(Au-PeEL)EBL831898(CaPaEBR)ebr10522502(CaONFJC)MIL337959(EXLCZ)99267000000013983320110609d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMothers of conservatism[electronic resource] women and the postwar right /Michelle M. NickersonPrinceton Princeton University Press20121 online resource (264 p.)Politics and society in twentieth-century AmericaDescription based upon print version of record.0-691-16391-X 0-691-12184-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 tPolitics and society in twentieth-century America.WomenPolitical activityUnited StatesHistory20th centuryConservatismUnited StatesHistory20th centuryFeminismUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesPolitics and government20th centuryElectronic books.WomenPolitical activityHistoryConservatismHistoryFeminismHistory.320.082Nickerson Michelle M1043974MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461814403321Mothers of conservatism2469291UNINA