9 “A REVOLUTION BUT HALF ACCOMPLISHED”: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S ENGAGEMENT WITH CHILD-RAISING, WOMEN’S WORK, AND FEMINISM

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. CONTRIBUTORS ix
4. INTRODUCTION xi
5. 1 THE NEW DEAL EXPERIMENTS 1
6. 2 HIGH TIDE: ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN, AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, 1932–1952 21
7. 3 THE ROOSEVELT COURT 63
8. 4 VOTING AGAINST THE HAMMER AND SICKLE: COMMUNISM AS AN ISSUE IN AMERICAN POLITICS 99
9. 5 THE ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SCIENTIST: THE CASE OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER 129
10. 6 RACE IN AMERICA: THE ULTIMATE TEST OF LIBERALISM 161
11. 7 AFRICAN AMERICANS, AMERICAN JEWS, AND THE HOLOCAUST 181
12. 8 RACE, ROCK AND ROLL, AND THE RIGGED SOCIETY: THE PAYOLA SCANDAL AND THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE 1950S 205
13. 9 “A REVOLUTION BUT HALF ACCOMPLISHED”: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY’S ENGAGEMENT WITH CHILD-RAISING, WOMEN’S WORK, AND FEMINISM 243
14. 10 RACE, CLASS, AND GENDER IN SOUTHERN HISTORY: FORCES THAT UNITE, FORCES THAT DIVIDE 275
15. 11 LIBERALISM AFTER THE SIXTIES: A RECONNAISSANCE 293
16. INDEX 327