Our schools, our children -- Shaping American education -- Public health -- Right-wing women and desegregation of the public schools -- Protesting the protests -- Sex, God, and the American flag: tradition and change in moral values -- The Vietnam War and student rebellion -- "Women's liberation" and the Equal Rights Amendment
Summary
Focusing on 1950-1980, June Benowitz explores the development of the right-wing women's movements in the United States by analyzing differences and continuities between the generations of conservative activists. Benowitz particularly seeks to understand the ways in which grassroots members of the Old Right responded to the political, cultural, and social ideologies of Baby Boomer youth by constructing a thematic framework covering major issues taken up be woman such as education, health, morals, war, and patriotism
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-349) and index
