Progressive Women in Conservative Times: Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism

Susan Lynn

Published by Rutgers University Press 1992

Progressive Women in Conservative Times

Racial Justice, Peace, and Feminism

Susan Lynn

https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813585598

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Susan Lynn explores women's progressive social reform efforts in the 1940s and 1950s, an era when women activists promoted a postwar vision of a society based on an expanded welfare state, a powerful labor movement, a strong tradition of civil liberties, racial equality, and a peaceful international order. Lynn focuses on two organizations, the YWCA and the American Friends Service Committee, to explore this agenda.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. "The Changer and the Changed": The Radicalization of Women Activists in the Interwar Decades Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
2. Children of One Father: The Development of an Interracial Organization in the YWCA Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. Speaking Truth to Power: The AFSC and the Struggle for Racial Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	68
4. Women and Peace Activism in Cold War America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
5. Feminism, Domesticity, and Women's Social Reform in Postwar America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. New Sprouts from Old Roots: The Development of the Protest Movements of the 1960s Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
List of Interviews Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207

Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Pages
- Main content: 232

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Published: December 1, 1992
ISBN: 9780813585598