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Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right

Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right

Nickerson, Michelle M.

Paperback

Series: Politics and Society in Modern America, Book 106

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 069116391X
ISBN13: 9780691163918
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Sep 7 2014
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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 the bottom up, out of the fabric of their daily lives and into the agenda of the Republican Party.

A unique history of the American conservative movement, Mothers of Conservatism shows how housewives got out of the house and discovered their political capital.

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