Based on the author's 2007 dissertation from Duke University titled Defending manhood: gender, social order and the rise of the Christian right in the South, 1965-1995. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part I. Children. Christian schools -- Textbook politics -- Home schools -- Part II. Mothers. Abortion -- Feminism -- Part III. Fathers. Gay rights -- Military men -- Promise Keepers.
Summary:
"Chronicles how the family values agenda became so powerful in American political life and why it appealed to conservative evangelical Christians."--Jacket.
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