ISBN:
0226395871
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 264 S.
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
1996
DDC:
305.4/06/073
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1939-1960
;
Geschichte 1939-1945
;
Geschichte
;
Extrémistes de droite - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Femmes - États-Unis - Associations - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Neutralité - États-Unis - Associations
;
Neutralité - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Radicales - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Politik
;
Neutrality History 20th century
;
Neutrality Societies, etc
;
Right-wing extremists History 20th century
;
Women radicals History 20th century
;
Women Societies and clubs 20th century
;
History
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Rechtsradikalismus
;
Frau
;
Kriegseintritt
;
États-Unis - Politique et gouvernement - 1933-1945
;
USA
;
United States Politics and government 1933-1945
;
USA
;
USA
;
Frau
;
Rechtsradikalismus
;
Kriegseintritt
;
Geschichte 1939-1945
;
USA
;
Zweiter Weltkrieg
;
Kriegseintritt
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Rechtsradikalismus
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Frauenbewegung
;
Rechtsradikalismus
;
Geschichte 1939-1960
Abstract:
The majority of American women supported the Allied cause during World War II and made sacrifices on the home front to benefit the war effort. But U.S. intervention was opposed by a movement led by ultraright women whose professed desire to keep their sons out of combat was mixed with militant Christianity, anticommunism, and anti-Semitism. This book is the first history of the self-styled "mothers' movement," so called because among its component groups were the National Legion of Mothers of America, the Mothers of Sons Forum, and the National Blue Star Mothers. Jeansonne examines the motivations of these women, the political and social impact of their movement, and their collaborations with men of the far right and also with mainstream isolationists such as Charles Lindbergh. Drawing on files kept by the FBI and other confidential documents, this book sheds light on the history of the war era and on women's place within the far right.
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