the international activities of American women’s organisations
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Laville, Helen
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 1H 2009
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenorganisaties, vrouwelijkheid, vrouwbeelden, netwerken, mannen, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 1940-1949, 1950-1959
- Description
- This book examines how the internationalist activities and ambitions of American women’s organizations in the years 1945 to 1960 gave way to other concerns. In the emerging Cold War, American women abandoned their relationship with women from other countries in favour of solidarity with American men. Far from being advocates of internationalism, American women had become agents for Americanism. Confronting a propaganda campaign from Soviet-backed women’s organizations, American women tried to export a vision of the American way of life and of women’s proper place within it.