Challenge and change
Subtitle: right-wing women, grassroots activism, and the baby boom generation
By: June Melby Benowitz
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780813061221
Subjects: Women political activists; Baby boom generation; Training of; Conservatism; Political activity; Women's rights; History; Right and left (Political science); Women
Description: Focusing on 1950-1980, June Benowitz explores the development of the right-wing women's movements in the United States by analyzing differences and continuities between the generations of conservative activists. Benowitz particularly seeks to understand the ways in which grassroots members of the Old Right responded to the political, cultural, and social ideologies of Baby Boomer youth by constructing a thematic framework covering major issues taken up by woman such as education, health, morals, war, and patriotism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index.
Table of contents: title: Our schools, our children; title: Shaping American education; title: Public health; title: Right-wing women and desegregation of the public schools; title: Protesting the protests; title: Sex, God, and the American flag: tradition and change in moral values; title: The Vietnam War and student rebellion; title: "Women's liberation" and the Equal Rights Amendment.