Politics and Motherhood in the Cold War: The American Public Relations

ISBN-13: 9783330053663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 100 str.

Whitney Fore

Opis

In the 1950s, the conservative New Right experienced its initial stirrings in a grassroots level movement dedicated to routing out communism and perceived socialism in the United States. At the forefront of this movement were various women-led groups, including the American Public Relations Forum (APRF) of Southern California. Concurrent with the rise of the New Right was the rise of the New Left, which opposed the nuclear arms race, the Vietnam War, and, later, racism and sexism. One particular group (though really a decentralized movement), Women Strike for Peace (WSP), was particularly active in these campaigns. Both the APRF and WSP utilized maternalist rhetoric and politics to not only recruit new members and mobilize existing members, but also to attract the attention of male politicians in an era when women were expected to remain in the domestic sphere.

O autorze

Whitney Fore graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in English and American history and a M.A. in American history, with a focus on Cold War politics. She now practices commercial litigation on behalf of Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies in Washington, D.C.