Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism【電子書籍】[ Mary Brennan ]

＜p＞In ＜em＞Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace,＜/em＞ Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brennan details the actions and experiences of prominent anti-communists Jean Kerr McCarthy, Margaret Chase Smith, Freda Utley, Doloris Thauwald Bridges, Elizabeth Churchill Brown, and Phyllis Stewart Schlafly. She describes the Cold War context in which these women functioned and the ways in which women saw communism as a very real danger to domestic security and American families. Millions of women, Brennan notes, expanded their notions of household responsibilities to include the crusade against communism. From writing letters and hosting teas to publishing books and running for political office, they campaigned against communism and, incidentally, discovered the power they had to effect change through activism.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Brennan reveals how the willingness of these deeply conservative women to leave the domestic spher．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る