LEADER 03972nam 22006973 450 001 9910838226403321 005 20240321052120.0 010 $a1-4773-2276-0 024 7 $a10.7560/322758 035 $a(CKB)4100000011950786 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6636653 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6636653 035 $a(OCoLC)1255711174 035 $a(DE-B1597)625688 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781477322765 035 $a(OCoLC)1343103909 035 $a(PPN)261851438 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011950786 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrandmothers on Guard $eGender, Aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico Border 210 1$aAustin :$cUniversity of Texas Press,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (222 pages) 311 1 $a1-4773-2275-2 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Border Politics and Invisible Women --$tChapter 1. Granny Brigades and Political Spectacle at the US-Mexico Border --$tChapter 2. Doing Old Womanhood at the Edge of the Nation-State --$tChapter 3. Grandma Grizzlies to the Rescue of Family and Nation --$tChapter 4. Misogyny Minuteman-Style and Women Tough Enough to Take It --$tChapter 5. Bringing the Border Back Home --$tConclusion. From Republican Motherhood to Patriotic Grandmotherhood --$tAppendix. Walking the Line --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aFor about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics? Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine?men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits?older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong. 517 0 $aGrandmothers on Guard 606 $aGrandmothers$xPolitical activity$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aOlder women$xPolitical activity$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aVigilantes$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aWomen conservatives$xPolitical activity$zMexican-American Border Region 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General$2bisacsh 610 $aconservative women's groups 610 $aconservative women's history 610 $aborder security 610 $aanti-immigration 610 $awhite supremacy in America 610 $aborder studies 610 $avigilante group. 610 $aGender Studies 610 $aMinutemen 610 $aUS Mexico Border 615 0$aGrandmothers$xPolitical activity 615 0$aOlder women$xPolitical activity 615 0$aVigilantes 615 0$aWomen conservatives$xPolitical activity 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE / General. 676 $a364.1 700 $aJohnson$b Jennifer$01122464 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838226403321 996 $aGrandmothers on Guard$94144078 997 $aUNINA