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Challenge and change : right-wing women, grassroots activism, and the baby boom generation / June Melby Benowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benowitz, June Melby, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Conservatism--United States--History--20th century.
- Conservatism.
- Women's rights--United States--History--20th century.
- Women's rights.
- Baby boom generation--United States.
- Baby boom generation.
- Women political activists--Training of--United States.
- Women political activists.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-5143-6
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