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Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2018Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (235 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498549820
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War AmericaDDC classification:
  • 305.42097309045
LOC classification:
  • HX83 .K464 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America -- Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Cold War, Hot Commodities -- From Wartime Worker To Citizen-consumer -- Comedic Consumerism And Satirical Sex Appeal -- Putting Femininity To Work -- Refashioning American Communism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Spheres of Influence -- Domesticity And Cold War American Politics -- Minimizing Objections Through Structure -- Appropriation And America's Forgotten Women -- Domestic Containment And Transnationalism -- Transnational Femininity And The Marxist Subject -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Voice and Visibility -- Gender And Race In Early Cold War Rhetoric -- Seeing Is Believing -- Through Voice -- Narrating Black Women's History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- "Articulate and Organized" -- At Home With The Bomb -- The Promise Of The Petition -- Motherhood As Collective Identity -- Witnessing For Peace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- "Long Range Propositions" -- Justification Through Autobiography -- Experiencing Repression And Racism -- Imagining Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- "The 100-Hour Work Week" -- Jail, The Home, And The Soviet Union -- Lawson's Analogical Arguments -- Translating Lawson's Arguments -- Challenging Lawson's Representation Of Domestic Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: This book explores how women within the male-dominated Communist Party in the United States built a home for feminist ideology and practice during the early Cold War. It explores how, in articles and petitions, women carefully crafted voices that spoke to the party's concerns while challenging its theoretical and practical limitations.
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Cover -- Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America -- Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Cold War, Hot Commodities -- From Wartime Worker To Citizen-consumer -- Comedic Consumerism And Satirical Sex Appeal -- Putting Femininity To Work -- Refashioning American Communism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2 -- Spheres of Influence -- Domesticity And Cold War American Politics -- Minimizing Objections Through Structure -- Appropriation And America's Forgotten Women -- Domestic Containment And Transnationalism -- Transnational Femininity And The Marxist Subject -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3 -- Voice and Visibility -- Gender And Race In Early Cold War Rhetoric -- Seeing Is Believing -- Through Voice -- Narrating Black Women's History -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4 -- "Articulate and Organized" -- At Home With The Bomb -- The Promise Of The Petition -- Motherhood As Collective Identity -- Witnessing For Peace -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5 -- "Long Range Propositions" -- Justification Through Autobiography -- Experiencing Repression And Racism -- Imagining Community -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6 -- "The 100-Hour Work Week" -- Jail, The Home, And The Soviet Union -- Lawson's Analogical Arguments -- Translating Lawson's Arguments -- Challenging Lawson's Representation Of Domestic Work -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This book explores how women within the male-dominated Communist Party in the United States built a home for feminist ideology and practice during the early Cold War. It explores how, in articles and petitions, women carefully crafted voices that spoke to the party's concerns while challenging its theoretical and practical limitations.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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