LEADER 05494nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910788681403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89665-6 010 $a0-8122-0716-5 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812207163 035 $a(CKB)3240000000065399 035 $a(OCoLC)822017884 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642178 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703504 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11422407 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703504 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690459 035 $a(PQKB)10567747 035 $a(OCoLC)809317681 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse17642 035 $a(DE-B1597)449510 035 $a(OCoLC)979623327 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812207163 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441843 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642178 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420915 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441843 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000065399 100 $a20110527d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBattling Miss Bolsheviki$b[electronic resource] $ethe origins of female conservatism in the United States /$fKirsten Marie Delegard 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Culture in Modern America 225 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4366-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. The Birth of "Miss Bolsheviki": Women, Gender, and the Red Scare --$tChapter 2. The Origins of the Spider Web Chart: Women and the Construction of the Bolshevik Threat --$tChapter 3. "It Takes Women to Fight Women": The Emergence of Female Antiradicalism --$tChapter 4. Stopping the "Revolution by Legislation": Antiradicals Unite Against Social Welfare Reform --$tChapter 5. The "Red Menace" Roils the Grass Roots: The Conservative Insurgency Reshapes Women's Organizations --$tChapter 6. The Legacy of Female Antiradicalism --$tEpilogue: From Antiradicalism to Anticommunism --$tAcronyms for Archival Sources --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhy did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920's by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical revolutions that were raging in other parts of the world. In the decades leading up to the Nineteenth Amendment, women activists had enjoyed great success as reformers, creating a political subculture with settlement houses and women's clubs as its cornerstones. Female volunteers piloted welfare programs as philanthropic ventures and used their organizations to pressure state, local, and national governments to assume responsibility for these programs. These female activists perceived their efforts as selfless missions necessary for the protection of their homes, families, and children. In seeking to fulfill their "maternal" responsibilities, progressive women fundamentally altered the scope of the American state, recasting the welfare of mothers and children as an issue for public policy. At the same time, they carved out a new niche for women in the public sphere, allowing female activists to become respected authorities on questions of social welfare. Yet in the aftermath of the suffrage amendment, the influence of women reformers plummeted and the new social order once envisioned by progressives appeared only more remote. Battling Miss Bolsheviki chronicles the ways women conservatives laid siege to this world of female reform, placing once-respected reformers beyond the pale of political respectability and forcing most women's clubs to jettison advocacy for social welfare measures. Overlooked by historians, these new activists turned the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Legion Auxiliary into vehicles for conservative political activism. Inspired by their twin desires to fulfill their new duties as voting citizens and prevent North American Bolsheviks from duplicating the success their comrades had enjoyed in Russia, they created a new political subculture for women activists. In a compelling narrative, Delegard reveals how the antiradicalism movement reshaped the terrain of women's politics, analyzing its enduring legacy for all female activists for the rest of the twentieth century and beyond. 410 0$aPolitics and culture in modern America. 606 $aWomen$xPolitical activity$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y20th century 610 $aAmerican History. 610 $aAmerican Studies. 610 $aGender Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 610 $aPublic Policy. 610 $aWomen's Studies. 615 0$aWomen$xPolitical activity$xHistory 615 0$aConservatism$xHistory 676 $a305.420973/09045 700 $aDelegard$b Kirsten$0992421 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788681403321 996 $aBattling Miss Bolsheviki$93720889 997 $aUNINA