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Book Review
Inside Organized Racism: Women in the Hate Movement. By Kathleen M. Blee. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. 272 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-520-22174-5.)
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In the past ten years, historians of American women have turned their attention away from radicals and reformers and looked instead at women on the right. Credit for this historiographical turn belongs in part to the sociologist Kathleen M. Blee and her 1991 study, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s, which demonstrated how women's activism sustained the largest right-wing mass movement in American history. Now, Blee examines white women in contemporary racist groups, wondering how and why women are drawn to such a belligerently masculine movement that offers its female adherents few obvious rewards. |
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