Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / Mary C. Brennan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Boulder, Colo. : University Press of Colorado, 2008Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (208 pages)Content type:
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  • 9780870819810
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Contents:
The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.
Summary: "This book is clearly written, admirably concise, and well situated in the secondary literature on gender and conservatism and the foreign and domestic Cold War. ... Brennan's study offers another valuable reminder that niether Joe McCarthy nor June Cleaver can stand as convenient shorthard for our historical narratives of the Cold War era." Journal of American History.
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The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.

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"This book is clearly written, admirably concise, and well situated in the secondary literature on gender and conservatism and the foreign and domestic Cold War. ... Brennan's study offers another valuable reminder that niether Joe McCarthy nor June Cleaver can stand as convenient shorthard for our historical narratives of the Cold War era." Journal of American History.

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