Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York

Stacie Taranto

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2017

Kitchen Table Politics

Conservative Women and Family Values in New York

Stacie Taranto

In the series Politics and Culture in Modern America

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293852

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About this book

Kitchen Table Politics investigates the role that the grassroots activism of middle-class, mostly Catholic homemakers played in the development of conservatism in New York State—and in the national shift toward a conservative politics of "family values."

Author / Editor information

Stacie Taranto is Associate Professor of History at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Reviews

"With Kitchen Table Politics, Stacie Taranto will change how we think about the culture wars and reorient our understanding of the Reagan era."—Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago

"Kitchen Table Politics makes significant contributions to our understanding of the rise of conservatism, the realignment of American political parties, the importance of gender politics to American political history, the nuances of grassroots activism, and the relevance of state-level politics to national politics."—Catherine E. Rymph, University of Missouri

"Taranto takes us into the daily lives, subjective experiences, and political activities of women whose import in reshaping the political history of the late twentieth century has not been appreciated. This book traces how and why, between the 1960s and 1980, these women were transformed from apolitical homemakers into activists . . . Taranto considers with empathy and insight the ways that this group of women felt about and responded to the changes in their world. Explaining how these women's subjective feelings of being disrespected became mobilized into a grassroots movement that shaped the realignment of political parties seems particularly important today."—The Journal of American History

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Note on Terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction. Inventing a New Politics of Family Values Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Out of the Sixties
Chapter 1. Becoming a Suburban Family Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Chapter 2. Vatican II and the Seeds of Political Discontent Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Part II. Awarkenings
Chapter 3. Abortion and Female Political Mobilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Chapter 4. Equal Rights and Profamily Politics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Part III. Coalescence
Chapter 5. Ellen McCormack for President Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Chapter 6. Toward the GOP Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
Part IV. Realignment
Chapter 7. Making a More Conservative Republican Party Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
Epilogue. The Politics of Women, Gender, and Family After 1980 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Archival Source and Interview List Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 17 illus.
Keywords: American History; Women's Studies; Gender Studies; Sociology; American Studies; Gender Studies

eBook

Published: March 16, 2017
ISBN: 9780812293852