Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar RightMothers 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. |
Contents
Conservative Women in the Early Twentieth Century | 1 |
Grassroots Conservatism in Postwar Los Angeles | 32 |
Conservative Female Activism in the Los Angeles Public Schools | 69 |
Psychological Experts and the State | 103 |
Women and the Building of a Movement | 136 |