Republican women
Subtitle: feminism and conservatism from suffrage through the rise of the new right
By: by Catherine E. Rymph.
Series: Gender & American culture
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) -- History; Women in politics -- United States; Conservatism -- United States -- History; Feminism -- United States -- History; Women political activists -- United States
Description: "In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party. As Catherine Rymph explains, their often conflicting efforts over the subsequent decades would leave a mark on both conservative politics and American feminism. Part of an emerging body of work on women's participation in partisan politics, Republican Women explores the dilemmas confronting progressive, conservative, and moderate Republican women as they sought to achieve a voice for themselves within hte GOP. ...

From the flux of the party's post-Goldwater years emerged two groups of women on a collision course: a group of party insiders calling themselves feminists challenged supporters of independent Republican Phyllis Schlafly's growing movement opposing the Equal Rights Amendment. Their battles over the meanings of gender, power, and Republicanism continued earlier struggles even as they helped shape the party's fundamental transformation in the Reagan years"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.