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Challenge and change : right-wing women, grassroots activism, and the baby boom generation /

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 t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Benowitz, June Melby (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Subjects:
Women > Political activity > United States > History > 20th century.
Conservatism > United States > History > 20th century.
Women's rights > United States > History > 20th century.
Baby boom generation > United States.
Women political activists > Training of > United States.
Right and left (Political science)
Table of 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.