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Mothers of conservatism [[electronic resource] ] : women and the postwar right / / Michelle M. Nickerson



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Autore: Nickerson Michelle M Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mothers of conservatism [[electronic resource] ] : women and the postwar right / / Michelle M. Nickerson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 320.082
Soggetto topico: Women - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century
Conservatism - United States - History - 20th century
Feminism - United States - History
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: 1950s
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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 t
Titolo autorizzato: Mothers of conservatism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-37959-7
9786613379597
1-4008-4220-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789871403321
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Serie: Politics and society in twentieth-century America.