Republican Women Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right

Name: Republican Women Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage Through the Rise of the New Right
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ISBN: 9780807856529

ISBN-10: 0807856525

ISBN-13: 9780807856529

Edition: 2006

Authors: Catherine E. Rymph

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In the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment, Republican women set out to forge a place for themselves within the Grand Old Party. As Catherine Rymph explains, their often conflicting efforts over the subsequent decades would leave a mark on both conservative politics and American feminism. Part of an emerging body of work on women's participation in partisan politics,Republican Womenexplores the dilemmas confronting progressive, conservative, and moderate Republican women as they sought to achieve a voice for themselves within the GOP. Rymph first examines women's grassroots organizing for the party in the decades following the initiation of women's suffrage. She then traces Marion Martin's…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 1/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Catherine E. Rymph is assistant professor of history at the University of Missouri.



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



Party Women and the Dilemmas of Women's Suffrage



So Many Joan of Arcs: The Political Style of Independent Clubwomen



Playing the Man's Game: Marion Martin and the Creation of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs



The Return of the Female Political Crusade



The Housework of Government



To Be Neutral or Neutralized?: Republican Women and the Goldwater Campaign



The Rise of Republican Feminism



Going Down in Flames: Republican Feminism and the Rise of the New Right


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index