Description
Book SynopsisKitchen Table Politics investigates the role that the grassroots activism of middle-class, mostly Catholic homemakers played in the development of conservatism in New York State-and in the national shift toward a conservative politics of "family values."
Trade Review"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. This book traces how and why, between the 1960s and 1980, these women were transformed from apolitical homemakers into activists . . . Taranto considers with empathy and insight the ways that this group of women felt about and responded to the changes in their world. Explaining how these women's subjective feelings of being disrespected became mobilized into a grassroots movement that shaped the realignment of political parties seems particularly important today." *
The Journal of American History *
"With
Kitchen Table Politics, Stacie Taranto will change how we think about the culture wars and reorient our understanding of the Reagan era." * Michelle Nickerson, Loyola University Chicago *
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Kitchen Table Politics makes significant contributions to our understanding of the rise of conservatism, the realignment of American political parties, the importance of gender politics to American political history, the nuances of grassroots activism, and the relevance of state-level politics to national politics." * Catherine E. Rymph, University of Missouri *
