04468nam 2201129 a 450 991078987140332120230801221513.01-283-37959-797866133795971-4008-4220-410.1515/9781400842209(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(DE-B1597)453809(DE-B1597)9781400842209(EXLCZ)99267000000013983320110609d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMothers of conservatism[electronic resource] women and the postwar right /Michelle M. NickersonCourse BookPrinceton 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 century1950s.American conservatism.John Birch Society.Los Angeles.Pasadena affair.Southern California.activist networks.anticommunism.antistatist protest.brainwashing.communism.conservatism.conservative activism.conservative consciousness.conservative female.conservative females.conservative movement.conservative women.desegregation.domestic routine.education politics.female activists.gender consciousness.grassroots right.housewife populist ideology.housewives.internationalism.local education.mental health professionals.mind control.political consciousness.political protest.professional psychology.school politics.women activists.women.WomenPolitical activityHistoryConservatismHistoryFeminismHistory.320.082Nickerson Michelle M1482957MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789871403321Mothers of conservatism3700917UNINA