Challenge and Change : Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation
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| Title: | Challenge and Change : Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation |
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| Description: | In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women--mostly white, middle-class, and conservative--sought to shape the political, cultural, and social ideologies of the baby boomers in what they perceived was a quickly changing world poisoned by communism.In Challenge and Change, June Melby Benowitz draws on a wide variety of primary sources to highlight the connections between the women of the Old Right, the New Right, and today's Tea Party. Through interviews, as well as through their letters to presidents, editors, and one another, Benowitz allows these women to speak for themselves. She examines the issues that stirred them to action--education, health, desegregation, moral corruption, war, patriotism, and the Equal Rights Amendment--and explores the development of the right-wing women's movement and its growth from the mid-twentieth into the twenty-first century. |
| Authors: | June Melby Benowitz |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Women's rights--United States--History--20th century, Conservatism--United States--History--20th century, Baby boom generation--United States, Right and left (Political science), Women political activists--Training of--United States, Women--Political activity--United States--History--20th century |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Women, HISTORY / United States / General, |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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