Social Justice Feminists and Their Counter-Hegemonic Actions in the Post-World War II United States, 1945–1964
| Autor: | John Thomas McGuire |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Hegemony
Sociology and Political Science biology 05 social sciences World War II Miller Cultural hegemony biology.organism_classification Feminism 0506 political science Gender Studies Politics Political economy Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration 050203 business & management Communism Social movement |
| Zdroj: | Politics & Gender. 15:971-990 |
| ISSN: | 1743-9248 1743-923X |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s1743923x18000478 |
| Popis: | Building upon the theoretical framework of Italian activist and scholar Antonio Gramsci, and using historical and public administrative sources, this article argues that while social justice feminism as a social movement in the United States declined by 1940, former participants continued their counter-hegemonic actions after World War II. Facing a new political and cultural hegemony increasingly dominated by fears of atomic annihilation, Soviet domination, and domestic Communist infiltration, women progressives, such as Frieda Miller and Esther Peterson, developed new approaches to continuing their counter-hegemonic aims, particularly through reviving an alternative view of public administration. Miller and Peterson thus helped prepare the way for women's activism in the United States to shift from economic security to equal rights by the mid-1960s, thus establishing an increasingly effective counter-hegemonic effort against the continuing patriarchal hegemony. |
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