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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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COVER Front -- CIP Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch -- Notes to Introduction -- PART I: Transnational and Comparative Studies -- Chapter 1: Transnational Connections Among Right-Wing Women: Brazil, Chile, and the United States (Margaret Power) -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Exporting the Culture Wars: Concerned Women for America in the Global Arena (Jill A. Irvine) -- Notes to Chapter 2 |
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Chapter 3: Memoirs of an Avatar: A Feminist Exploration of Right-Wing Worlds in SecondLife.com (Randolph Hollingsworth) -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Righting Africa? Contextualizing Notions of Women's Right-Wing Activism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Kathleen M. Fallon and Julie Moreau) -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Gender, Islam, and Conservative Politics (Karla J. Cunningham) -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6: Women in Extreme Right Parties and Movements: A Comparison of the Netherlands and the United States (Kathleen M. Blee and Annette Linden) -- Notes to Chapter 6 |
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PART II: Privatizing the Public, Politicizing the Private -- Chapter 7: Maternalism Goes to War: Class, Nativism, and Mothers' Fight for Conscription in America's First World War (Kate Hallgren) -- Notes to Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8: From Suffrage to Silence: The South African Afrikaner Nationalist Women's Parties, 1915-1931 (Louise Vincent) -- Notes to Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9: Porfirista Femininity in Exile: Women's Contributions to San Antonio's La Prensa, 1913-1929 (Nancy Aguirre) -- Notes to Chapter 9 |
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Chapter 10: Domesticating Fascism: Family and Gender in French Fascist Leagues (Daniella Sarnoff) -- Notes to Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11: The Volksgemeinschaft and Its Female Denouncers in the Third Reich (Vandana Joshi) -- Notes to Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12: Mothering the Nation: Maternalist Frames in the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India (Meera Sehgal) -- Notes to Chapter 12 -- PART III: Countering the Left -- Chapter 13: "It Takes Women to Fight Women": Woman Suffrage and the Genesis of Female Conservatism in the United States (Kirsten Delegard) -- Notes to Chapter 13 |
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Chapter 14: Women's Work in Argentina's Nationalist Lexicon, 1930-1943 (Mariela Rubinzal) -- Notes to Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15: "To Tell All My People": Race, Representation, and John Birch Society Activist Julia Brown (Veronica A. Wilson) -- Notes to Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16: Leading the Nation: Extreme Right Women Leaders Among the Serbs (Carol S. Lilly and Jill A. Irvine) -- Notes to Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17: Dilemmas of Representation: Conservative and Feminist Women's Organizations React to Sarah Palin (Ronnee Schreiber) -- Notes to Chapter 17 -- Selected Bibliography |
| Summary |
In Women of the Right, Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch bring together a groundbreaking collection of essays examining women in right-wing politics across the world, from the early twentieth-century white Afrikaner movement in South Africa to the supporters of Sarah Palin today. The volume introduces a truly global perspective on how women matter in the national and transnational links and exchanges of rightist politics. Suitable for classroom use, it sets a new agenda for scholarship on women on the right.Aside from the editors, the contributors are Nancy Aguirre, Karla J. Cunningham, Kirsten Delegard, Kathleen M. Fallon, Kate Hallgren, Randolph Hollingsworth, Jill Irvine, Vandana Joshi, Carol S. Lilly, Annette Linden, Julie Moreau, Margaret Power, Mariela Rubinzal, Daniella Sarnoff, Ronnee Schreiber, Meera Sehgal, Louise Vincent, and Veronica A. Wilson |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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List of Contributors |
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Women political activists -- Cross-cultural studies
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Women conservatives -- Cross-cultural studies
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Women -- Political activity -- Cross-cultural studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays.
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Women conservatives
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Women political activists
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Women -- Political activity
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| Genre/Form |
Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Deutsch, Sandra McGee
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| ISBN |
9780271061719 |
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0271061715 |
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