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Mothers of Conservatism : Women and the Postwar Right
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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.
ISBN
9780691163918
Publication Date
9-7-2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press
City
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Keywords
Conservatism, Feminism, Mothers, Postwar
Disciplines
History | History of Gender | Other History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Nickerson, Michelle, "Mothers of Conservatism : Women and the Postwar Right" (2014). Faculty Books. 221.
https://ecommons.luc.edu/facultybooks/221
