Women of the Far Right The Mothers' Movement and World War II

Name: Women of the Far Right The Mothers' Movement and World War II
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ISBN: 9780226395890

ISBN-10: 0226395898

ISBN-13: 9780226395890

Edition: 1997

Authors: Glen Jeansonne

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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.Unlike leftist antiwar movements, the mothers' movement was not pacifist; its members opposed the war on Germany because they…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/9/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



The Context of the World War II Mothers' Movement



Elizabeth Dilling and the Genesis of a Movement



The Fifth Column



The National Legion of Mothers of America



Cathrine Curtis and the Women's National Committee to Keep the U.S. Out of War



Dilling and the Crusade against Lend-Lease



Lyrl Clark Van Hyning and We the Mothers Mobilize for America



The Mothers' Movement in the Midwest: Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Detroit



The Mothers' Movement in the East: Philadelphia and New York



Agnes Waters: The Lone Wolf of Dissent



The Mass Sedition Trial



The Postwar Mothers' Movement



The Significance of the Mothers' Movement


Epilogue: "Can We All Get Along?"


Notes


Bibliographical Essay


Index