| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.4

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Book Review

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Kim E. Nielsen. Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2001. Pp. x, 219. Cloth $55.00, paper $22.95.

Generations of students have been introduced to the history of antiradicalism in the post-World War I era by Robert K. Murray's classic, Red Scare: A Study of National Hysteria (1955). Kim E. Nielsen's book is a volume for a new generation, updating Murray's story by placing gender at the heart of the antiradical movement of the 1920s. This slender book deftly combines recent theories on gender and the state, thorough research in a wide array of primary sources, and a clean narrative style to reconceptualize the 1920s Red Scare. 1

The book joins a small but growing body of literature on the history of conservative women. Recent scholarship has, for example, examined women of the Klan, women antisuffragists, and women of the 1950s "mother's movement." Like the authors of those works, Nielsen has to spend considerable time explaining the seeming contradictions of antifeminist women activists, which she does convincingly. Unlike the authors of those works, who generally have placed their stories within the context of women's history, Nielsen also grounds her story in the history of American conservatism, a necessary and welcome advancement of the historiography. . . .

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