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Format: ix, 457 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 23 cm.

ISBN: 978-1-4214-3868-9

Content: "The volume editors have assembled a diverse set of contributors (twenty-two scholars) who take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920"--

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-4214-3869-6

Language: English

Subjects: History , Political Science

Keywords: Frau ; Politisches Engagement ; Frauenwahlrecht ; Geschichte

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Format: 1 online resource : , 17 illus.

ISBN: 9780812293852

Series Statement: Politics and Culture in Modern America

Content: Most histories of modern American politics tell a similar story: that the Sunbelt, with its business friendly environment, right-to-work laws, and fierce spirit of frontier individualism, provided the seedbed for popular conservatism. Stacie Taranto challenges this narrative by positioning New York State as a central battleground. In 1970, under the governorship of Republican Nelson Rockefeller, New York became one of the first states to legalize abortion. By 1980, however, conservative, antifeminist Republicans with broad suburban appeal—symbolized by figures such as Ronald Reagan—had usurped power from these so-called Rockefeller Republicans. What happened during the intervening decade?In Kitchen Table Politics, Taranto investigates the role that middle-class, mostly Catholic women played both in the development of conservatism in New York State and in the national shift toward a conservative politics of "family values." Far from Albany, a short train ride away from the feminist activity in New York City, white, Catholic homemakers on Long Island and in surrounding suburban counties saw the legalization of abortion in the state in 1970 as a threat to their hard-won version of the American dream. Borrowing tactics from church groups and parent-teacher associations, these women created the New York State Right to Life Party and organized against several feminist initiatives, including defeating an effort to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the state constitution in 1975.These self-described "average housewives," Taranto argues, were more than just conservative shock troops; instead, they were inventing a new, politically viable conservatism centered on the heterosexual traditional nuclear family that the GOP's right wing used to broaden its electoral base. Figures such as activist Phyllis Schafly, New York senator Al D'Amato, and presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan viewed the Right to Life Party's activism as offering a viable model to defeat feminist initiatives and win family values votes nationwide. Taranto gathers archival evidence and oral histories to piece together the story of these homemakers, whose grassroots organizing would shape the course of modern American conservatism.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Note on Terms -- , Introduction. Inventing a New Politics of Family Values -- , Part I. Out of the Sixties -- , Chapter 1. Becoming a Suburban Family -- , Chapter 2. Vatican II and the Seeds of Political Discontent -- , Part II. Awarkenings -- , Chapter 3. Abortion and Female Political Mobilization -- , Chapter 4. Equal Rights and Profamily Politics -- , Part III. Coalescence -- , Chapter 5. Ellen McCormack for President -- , Chapter 6. Toward the GOP -- , Part IV. Realignment -- , Chapter 7. Making a More Conservative Republican Party -- , Epilogue. The Politics of Women, Gender, and Family After 1980 -- , Archival Source and Interview List -- , Notes -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.9783/9780812293852

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293852

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Format: 1 online resource : , 17 illus.

ISBN: 9780812293852

Series Statement: Politics and Culture in Modern America

Content: Most histories of modern American politics tell a similar story: that the Sunbelt, with its business friendly environment, right-to-work laws, and fierce spirit of frontier individualism, provided the seedbed for popular conservatism. Stacie Taranto challenges this narrative by positioning New York State as a central battleground. In 1970, under the governorship of Republican Nelson Rockefeller, New York became one of the first states to legalize abortion. By 1980, however, conservative, antifeminist Republicans with broad suburban appeal—symbolized by figures such as Ronald Reagan—had usurped power from these so-called Rockefeller Republicans. What happened during the intervening decade?In Kitchen Table Politics, Taranto investigates the role that middle-class, mostly Catholic women played both in the development of conservatism in New York State and in the national shift toward a conservative politics of "family values." Far from Albany, a short train ride away from the feminist activity in New York City, white, Catholic homemakers on Long Island and in surrounding suburban counties saw the legalization of abortion in the state in 1970 as a threat to their hard-won version of the American dream. Borrowing tactics from church groups and parent-teacher associations, these women created the New York State Right to Life Party and organized against several feminist initiatives, including defeating an effort to add an Equal Rights Amendment to the state constitution in 1975.These self-described "average housewives," Taranto argues, were more than just conservative shock troops; instead, they were inventing a new, politically viable conservatism centered on the heterosexual traditional nuclear family that the GOP's right wing used to broaden its electoral base. Figures such as activist Phyllis Schafly, New York senator Al D'Amato, and presidential hopeful Ronald Reagan viewed the Right to Life Party's activism as offering a viable model to defeat feminist initiatives and win family values votes nationwide. Taranto gathers archival evidence and oral histories to piece together the story of these homemakers, whose grassroots organizing would shape the course of modern American conservatism.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Note on Terms -- , Introduction. Inventing a New Politics of Family Values -- , Part I. Out of the Sixties -- , Chapter 1. Becoming a Suburban Family -- , Chapter 2. Vatican II and the Seeds of Political Discontent -- , Part II. Awarkenings -- , Chapter 3. Abortion and Female Political Mobilization -- , Chapter 4. Equal Rights and Profamily Politics -- , Part III. Coalescence -- , Chapter 5. Ellen McCormack for President -- , Chapter 6. Toward the GOP -- , Part IV. Realignment -- , Chapter 7. Making a More Conservative Republican Party -- , Epilogue. The Politics of Women, Gender, and Family After 1980 -- , Archival Source and Interview List -- , Notes -- , Index -- , Acknowledgments , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.9783/9780812293852

URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812293852

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ISBN: 9781107165427

Note: Literaturangaben

In: Inventing the "silent majority": conservative mobilization in Western Europe and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s (Veranstaltung : 2013 : Washington, DC), Inventing the silent majority in Western Europe and the United States, Washington, D.C. : German Historical Institute, 2017, (2017), Seite 317-338, 9781107165427

In: 9781316616987

In: year:2017

In: pages:317-338

Language: English

Keywords: USA ; Republican Party ; Frauenfeindlichkeit ; Geschichte 1970-1980