Holding fast to traditional values in the face of unprecedented economic hardship, nearly a million American women joined right-wing organizations during the Great Depression and World War II. "Days of Discontent" provides a new perspective for understanding why the far right appealed to these women, whose political self-awareness grew with the tumultuous times. Influenced by the conventional image of women as mothers and nurturers, many women viewed the right-wing movement as a way to protect and maintain American morality. The radical right leaders, such as Elizabeth Dilling and...
Holding fast to traditional values in the face of unprecedented economic hardship, nearly a million American women joined right-wing organizations ...
In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women--mostly white, middle-class, and conservative--sought to shape the political, cultural, and social ideologies of the baby boomers in what they perceived was a quickly changing world poisoned by communism.
In Challenge and Change, June Melby Benowitz draws on a wide variety of primary sources to highlight the connections between the women of the Old Right, the New Right, and today's Tea Party. Through interviews, as well as through their letters to presidents, editors, and one another, Benowitz allows these women to...
In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women--mostly white, middle-class, and conservative--sought to shape the political, cultural...
?A sweeping study of the distaff side of anti-communism/anti-government conspiracy politics. Eileen Boris, coeditor of The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues Benowitz shows how the conservative women of the 1950s helped to lay the foundation for the ?New Right. Mary C. Brennan, author of Pat Nixon: Embattled First Lady In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women?mostly white, middle-class, and conservative?sought to shape the political, cultural, and social ideologies of the baby boomers in what they perceived was a quickly changing...
?A sweeping study of the distaff side of anti-communism/anti-government conspiracy politics. Eileen Boris, coeditor of The Practice of U.S. Women's Hi...
