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Progressive women in conservative times : racial justice, peace, and feminism, 1945 to the 1960s

Author: Susan Lynn
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Traces the efforts of women to bring about social change, including an expanded welfare state, racial equality, and a peaceful international order, during two decades after WWII.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Susan Lynn
ISBN: 0813518679 : 9780813518671 0813518687 : 9780813518688
OCLC Number: 25509978
Description: xi, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1. "The Changer and the Changed": The Radicalization of Women Activists in the Interwar Decades --
2. Children of One Father: The Development of an Interracial Organization in the YWCA --
3. Speaking Truth to Power: The AFSC and the Struggle for Racial Justice --
4. Women and Peace Activism in Cold War America --
5. Feminism, Domesticity, and Women's Social Reform in Postwar America --
6. New Sprouts from Old Roots: The Development of the Protest Movements of the 1960s.
Responsibility: Susan Lynn.

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Traces the efforts of women to bring about social change, including an expanded welfare state, racial equality, and a peaceful international order, during two decades after WWII.

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