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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Benowitz, June M. Challenge and Change : Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2017 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
June M Benowitz |
ISBN: | 9780813063157 0813063159 |
OCLC Number: | 1002700565 |
Description: | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
Contents: | Introduction -- Part I. Our schools, our children -- Shaping American education -- Public health -- Right-wing women and desegregation of the public schools -- Part II. Protesting the protests -- Sex, God, and the American flag : tradition and change in moral values -- The Vietnam War and student rebellion -- "Women's liberation" and the Equal Rights Amendment -- Conclusion -- Appendix. |
Abstract:
In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women 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. 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.
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