Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
"Nickerson has enriched conservative historiography by examining the integral role women played in conservatism's development and implementation and has forced feminist historiography to confront the complications that conservative female activists bring to the literature."--Mary C. Brennan,Journal of American History"Michelle M. Nickerson's carefully crafted study of grassroots conservative activists in Los Angeles County in the 1950s and early 1960s offers an important contribution to the scholarship on twentieth-century conservatism and women's political activism in the pre-Feminine Mystique(1963) 'doldrums.'"--Sylvie Murray,American Historical Review