Progressive Women in Conservative Times : : Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism / / / Susan Lynn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lynn, Susan,
• Author: Lynn, Susan,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : : Rutgers University Press, , [1992]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 1992
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)

Susan Lynn explores women's progressive social reform efforts in the 1940s and 1950s, an era when women activists promoted a postwar vision of a society based on an expanded welfare state, a powerful labor movement, a strong tradition of civil liberties, racial equality, and a peaceful international order. Lynn focuses on two organizations, the YWCA and the American Friends Service Committee, to explore this agenda.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "The Changer and the Changed": The Radicalization of Women Activists in the Interwar Decades -- 2. Children of One Father: The Development of an Interracial Organization in the YWCA -- 3. Speaking Truth to Power: The AFSC and the Struggle for Racial Justice -- 4. Women and Peace Activism in Cold War America -- 5. Feminism, Domesticity, and Women's Social Reform in Postwar America -- 6. New Sprouts from Old Roots: The Development of the Protest Movements of the 1960s -- Conclusion -- List of Interviews -- Notes -- Index