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Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / Mary C. Brennan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brennan, Mary C.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Communism--United States--Prevention.
- Communism.
- Conservatism--United States--History.
- Conservatism.
- Women conservatives--United States--History.
- Women conservatives.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government--20th century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University Press of Colorado 2008
- Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Mary Brennan is an associate professor in the Department of History at Texas State University-San Marcos and the author of Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP.
- Summary:
- In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II. Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in which these women functioned and the ways in which women saw communism as a very real danger to domestic security and American families. Millions of women, Brennan notes, expanded their notions of ho
- Contents:
- The cold war world
- Who were these women?
- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism
- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene
- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607327165
- 1607327163
- 9781457110986
- 1457110989
- 9780870819810
- 087081981X
- OCLC:
- 775301673
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