"Mothers of Conservatism" tells the story of 1950s Southern
Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two
decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how
red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions,
and political consciousness in local education battles, and she
introduces a generation of women who developed political styles and
practices around their domestic routines. From the conservative
movement's origins in the early fifties through the presidential
election of 1964, Nickerson documents how women shaped conservatism
from the bottom up, out of the fabric of their daily lives and into
the agenda of the Republican Party.
A unique history of the American conservative movement, "Mothers
of Conservatism" shows how housewives got out of the house and
discovered their political capital.
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