Progressive Women in Conservative Times : : Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism / / / Susan Lynn.
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 internat...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : : Rutgers University Press, , [1992] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 1992 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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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