Mothers of conservatism [[electronic resource] ] : women and the postwar right / / Michelle M. Nickerson
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Nickerson Michelle M
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| Titolo: |
Mothers of conservatism [[electronic resource] ] : women and the postwar right / / Michelle M. Nickerson
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| Pubblicazione: | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2012 |
| 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 genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| ISBN: | 1-283-37959-7 |
| 9786613379597 | |
| 1-4008-4220-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461814403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Politics and society in twentieth-century America.