Battling Miss Bolsheviki : : The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States / / Kirsten Marie Delegard.
Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to rad...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Politics and Culture in Modern America
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Birth of "Miss Bolsheviki": Women, Gender, and the Red Scare
- Chapter 2. The Origins of the Spider Web Chart: Women and the Construction of the Bolshevik Threat
- Chapter 3. "It Takes Women to Fight Women": The Emergence of Female Antiradicalism
- Chapter 4. Stopping the "Revolution by Legislation": Antiradicals Unite Against Social Welfare Reform
- Chapter 5. The "Red Menace" Roils the Grass Roots: The Conservative Insurgency Reshapes Women's Organizations
- Chapter 6. The Legacy of Female Antiradicalism
- Epilogue: From Antiradicalism to Anticommunism
- Acronyms for Archival Sources
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments