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Title:

Women of the right : comparisons and interplay across borders / edited by Kathleen M. Blee and Sandra McGee Deutsch.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

x, 306 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Women--Political activity--Cross-cultural studies.
Women political activists--Cross-cultural studies.
Women conservatives--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Blee, Kathleen M.
Deutsch, Sandra McGee, 1950-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Transnational connections among right-wing women : Brazil, Chile, and the United States / Margaret Power -- Exporting the culture wars : Concerned Women for America in the global arena / Jill A. Irvine -- Memoirs of an avatar : a feminist exploration of right-wing worlds in SecondLife.com / Randolph Hollingsworth -- Righting Africa? Contextualizing notions of women's right-wing activism in sub-Saharan Africa / Kathleen M. Fallon and Julie Moreau -- Gender, Islam, and conservative politics / Karla J. Cunningham -- Women in extreme right parties and movements : a comparison of the Netherlands and the United States / Kathleen M. Blee and Annette Linden -- Maternalism goes to war : class, nativism, and mothers' fight for conscription in America's first world war / Kate Hallgren -- From suffrage to silence : the South African Afrikaner nationalist women's parties, 1915-1931 / Louise Vincent -- Porfirista femininity in exile : women's contributions to San Antonio's La Prensa, 1913-1929 / Nancy Aguirre -- Domesticating fascism : family and gender in French fascist leagues / Daniella Sarnoff -- The Volksgemeinschaft and its female denouncers in the Third Reich / Vandana Joshi -- Mothering the nation : maternalist frames in the Hindu Nationalist Movement in India / Meera Sehgal -- It takes women to fight women : woman suffrage and the genesis of female conservatism in the United States / Kirstem Delegard -- Women's work in Argentina's nationalist lexicon, 1930-1943 / Mariela Rubinzal -- To tell all my people : race, representation, and John Birch Society activist Julia Brown / Veronica A. Wilson -- Leading the nation : extreme right women leaders among the Serbs / Carol S. Lilly and Jill A. Irvine -- Dilemmas of representation : conservative and feminist women's organizations react to Sarah Palin / Ronee Schreiber.

Summary:

"An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the role of women in right-wing political activism around the world, from the Afrikaner movement in South Africa in the early twentieth century to the supporters of Sarah Palin in the United States"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0271052163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271052168 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0271052155 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271052151 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)745766007

LCCN:

2011031329

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)