Challenge and change [electronic resource] : right-wing women, grassroots activism, and the baby boom generation / June Melby Benowitz.

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 Ol...

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Main Author: Benowitz, June Melby (Author)
Language:English
Published: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
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Challenge and Change: Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation
Format: Electronic eBook
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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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index.
ISBN:9780813051437 (online)
9780813055572 (online)