Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace : Conservative Women and the Crusade against Communism / / Mary C. Brennan.

• Author: Brennan, Mary C.
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder, Colo. : : University Press of Colorado,, 2008.; ©2008.
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (213 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II. 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 ho

Table of Contents

The cold war world -- Who were these women? -- Women beware : the feminine view of foreign communism -- Women arise : the red threat on the domestic scene -- Manly men and the little woman : gender and anticommunism.