Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare - Paperback
Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare - Paperback
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by Kim Nielsen (Author)
Un-American Womanhood studies the Red Scare of the 1920s through the lens of gender. Kim Nielsen describes the methods antifeminists used to subdue feminism and other movements they viewed as radical. By tapping into widespread anxieties about Bolshevism and the expansion of the state, antifeminist women fought against certain social welfare programs such as the Sheppard-Towner Act and the Children's Bureau and resisted efforts to legitimize the female citizen as an autonomous political figure. The book also considers the seeming contradictions of outspoken antifeminists who broke with traditional gender norms to assume forceful and public roles in their efforts to denounce feminism.
Author Biography
Kim Nielsen is an assistant professor in the Department of Social Change and Development at the University of Wisconsin.
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