Title: Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York
Abstract:In 1975 Ceil Herman, a Long Island homemaker and anti–equal rights amendment activist, testified before the New York State Senate's Judiciary Committee on the New York State equal rights amendment: “w...In 1975 Ceil Herman, a Long Island homemaker and anti–equal rights amendment activist, testified before the New York State Senate's Judiciary Committee on the New York State equal rights amendment: “we women who choose a career in the home are … considered by [feminists] to be servile, dishonest, inefficient, inconsistent, idiotic, passive, ignorant, and ineffectual individuals” (p.107). The political consequences of the disrespect felt by women such as Herman are at the heart of Stacie Taranto's argument that New York's abortion and state [equal rights amendment] battles forced many (white often newly middle-class) suburban women to pay attention to politics for fear that what they cherished most—motherhood, homemaking, and nuclear family life—would be taken away by feminists. (p. 162) Using interviews, private papers, and state government and organizational archives, Taranto takes us into the daily lives, subjective experiences, and political activities of women whose import in reshaping the political history of the late twentieth century has not been appreciated.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-12-06
Language: en
Type: article
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