Description
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.Author: Michelle M. Nickerson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 09/07/2014
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780691163918
ISBN10: 069116391X
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Conservatism & Liberalism
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- History | United States | 20th Century
About the Author
Michelle M. Nickerson is associate professor of history at Loyola University, Chicago. She is coeditor of Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Space, Place, and Region.