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Challenge and change : right-wing women, grassroots activism, and the baby boom generation
Title
Challenge and change : right-wing women, grassroots activism, and the baby boom generation / June Melby Benowitz.
ISBN
9780813061221
0813061229
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Physical Description
xii, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
Focusing on 1950-1980, June Benowitz explores the development of the right-wing women's movements in the United States by analyzing differences and continuities between the generations of conservative activists. Benowitz particularly seeks to understand the ways in which grassroots members of the Old Right responded to the political, cultural, and social ideologies of Baby Boomer youth by constructing a thematic framework covering major issues taken up be woman such as education, health, morals, war, and patriotism.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index.
Contents
Our schools, our children
Shaping American education
Public health
Right-wing women and desegregation of the public schools
Protesting the protests
Sex, God, and the American flag: tradition and change in moral values
The Vietnam War and student rebellion
"Women's liberation" and the Equal Rights Amendment.
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