Motherhood in black and white : race and sex in American liberalism, 1930-1965 /

Motherhood in black and white : race and sex in American liberalism, 1930-1965 / Ruth Feldstein.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feldstein, Ruth, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
Motherhood > United States > History > 20th century.
Mothers > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > United States > History > 20th century.
Liberalism > United States > History > 20th century.
Racism > United States > History > 20th century.
Motherhood.
Mothers.
Women.
Gender identity.
Racism.
Table of Contents:
  • "The women have a big part to play": citizenship, motherhood, and race in New Deal liberalism
  • Racism as un-American: psychology, masculinity, and maternal failure in the 1940s
  • "Politics in an age of anxiety": Cold War liberalism and dangers to Americans
  • "I wanted the whole world to see": constructions of motherhood in the death of Emmett Till
  • "Imitation" reconsidered: consuming images in the late 1950s
  • Pathologies and mystiques: revising motherhood and liberalism in the 1960s.

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