Communist Rhetoric and Feminist Voices in Cold War America

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..

List of contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Cold War, Hot Commodities: Gendering Consumer Culture Post-WWII
2. Spheres of Influence: Building Credibility and Theory in Woman Against Myth, 1948
3. Voice and Visibility: Building Black Feminism in the Postwar Communist Party United States
4. "Articulate and Organized": Peace Petitions, Working-Class Motherhood, and Transnational Witnessing
5. "Long Range Propositions": Justifying Activism and Building Commitment
6. "The 100-Hour Work Week": The Housewife Ethos and Changes to the CPUSA
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Jennifer Keohane is assistant professor in the Klein Family School of Communications Design at the University of Baltimore.

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..

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Keohane, Jennifer A. Keohane, Keohane Jennifer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781498549813
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-4981-3
• No. of pages: 234
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; USA, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Communication Studies, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Feminism and feminist theory, History and Archaeology, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts