Mothers of Conservatism tells the story of 1950s Southern Californian housewives who shaped the grassroots right in the two decades following World War II. Michelle Nickerson describes how red-hunting homemakers mobilized activist networks, institutions, and political consciousness in local education battles, and she introduces a generation of women who developed political styles and practices around their domestic routines. From the conservative movement's origins in the early fifties through the presidential election of 1964, Nickerson documents how women shaped conservatism from the bottom up, out of the fabric of their daily lives and into the agenda of the Republican Party. A unique history of the American conservative movement, Mothers of Conservatism shows how housewives got out of the house and discovered their political capital.
- ISBN10 1400842204
- ISBN13 9781400842209
- Publish Date 15 April 2012 (first published 12 April 2012)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Edition Student ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 264
- Language English