Battling Miss Bolsheviki

Informationen zum Autor Kirsten Marie Delegard Klappentext Kirsten Marie Delegard is an independent researcher and historian based in Minneapolis. Zusammenfassung At the beginning of the 1920s! no political observer would have predicted that universal suffrage would inspire the growth of a conservative women's movement to counter the power of women reformers. This book describes the birth of that movement! analyzing its enduring legacy for twentieth-century female political activists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. The Birth of "Miss Bolsheviki": Women, Gender, and the Red Scare Chapter 2. The Origins of the Spider Web Chart: Women and the Construction of the Bolshevik Threat Chapter 3. "It Takes Women to Fight Women": The Emergence of Female Antiradicalism Chapter 4. Stopping the "Revolution by Legislation": Antiradicals Unite Against Social Welfare Reform Chapter 5. The "Red Menace" Roils the Grass Roots: The Conservative Insurgency Reshapes Women's Organizations Chapter 6. The Legacy of Female Antiradicalism Epilogue: From Antiradicalism to Anticommunism Acronyms for Archival Sources Notes Index Acknowledgments

Autorentext

Kirsten Marie Delegard is an independent researcher and historian based in Minneapolis.

Klappentext

Kirsten Marie Delegard is an independent researcher and historian based in Minneapolis.

Zusammenfassung
At the beginning of the 1920s, no political observer would have predicted that universal suffrage would inspire the growth of a conservative women's movement to counter the power of women reformers. This book describes the birth of that movement, analyzing its enduring legacy for twentieth-century female political activists.

Inhalt

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Birth of "Miss Bolsheviki": Women, Gender, and the Red Scare
Chapter 2. The Origins of the Spider Web Chart: Women and the Construction of the Bolshevik Threat
Chapter 3. "It Takes Women to Fight Women": The Emergence of Female Antiradicalism
Chapter 4. Stopping the "Revolution by Legislation": Antiradicals Unite Against Social Welfare Reform
Chapter 5. The "Red Menace" Roils the Grass Roots: The Conservative Insurgency Reshapes Women's Organizations
Chapter 6. The Legacy of Female Antiradicalism
Epilogue: From Antiradicalism to Anticommunism
Acronyms for Archival Sources
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments