Women of the Far Right: The Mothers' Movement and World War II

by Glen Jeansonne

Book Overview

The majority of American women supported the Allied cause during World War II. and made sacrifices on the home front to benefit the war effort. But U.S. intervention was opposed by a movement led by ultraright women whose professed desire to keep their sons out of combat was mixed with militant Christianity, anticommunism, and anti-Semitism. This book is the first history of the self-styled "mothers' movement," so called because among its component...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226395871
• ISBN13: 9780226395876
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"