Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism
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 Thauwal...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boulder, Colo. :
University Press of Colorado
2008
2008. |
| Edición: | 1st ed |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009426077706719 |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781607327165 9781457110986 9780870819810 |
