Mothers of Conservatism:
Women and the Postwar Right
Michelle M. Nickerson

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ADDITIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:

"Focusing on conservative women in Los Angeles in the early years of the Cold War, this first-rate book challenges an established literature portraying women in the 1950s as domesticated and isolated in the private sphere of the home. By detailing their political activities, Nickerson persuasively shows how women constituted a vanguard of the conservative movement emerging in the postwar period."--Donald Critchlow, Barry Goldwater Chair of American Institutions, Arizona State University

"Mothers of Conservatism is full of insight, terrific research, and vivid stories. Nickerson's key points and approach are brave and smart, and she shows that the work of certain women in the Cold War period represented an unconventional female activism. Neither crazy nor dupes, but serious activists, these women used the local political sphere to exert considerable influence in building the rise of American conservatism."--Linda Gordon, New York University

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