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Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare

Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare

Nielsen, Kim

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Women's Studies

ISBN10: 0814250807
ISBN13: 9780814250808
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jul 15 2001
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Un-American Womanhood studies the Red Scare of the 1920s through the lens of gender. Kim Nielsen describes the methods antifeminists used to subdue feminism and other movements they viewed as radical. By tapping into widespread anxieties about Bolshevism and the expansion of the state, antifeminist women fought against certain social welfare programs such as the Sheppard-Towner Act and the Children's Bureau and resisted efforts to legitimize the female citizen as an autonomous political figure. The book also considers the seeming contradictions of outspoken antifeminists who broke with traditional gender norms to assume forceful and public roles in their efforts to denounce feminism.

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