| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.2

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Un-American Womanhood: Antiradicalism, Antifeminism, and the First Red Scare. By Kim E. Nielsen. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2001. x, 219 pp. Cloth, $55.00,ISBN 0-8142-0882-7. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-8142-5080-7.)

This book joins a growing literature on the gendered aspects of twentieth-century American conservatism. A wave of scholarship published in the 1990s documented the important state-building work of progressive women and invited gender analysis of right-wing reactions against expansions of government regulatory and redistributive capacities. Kim E. Nielsen's slender monograph advances that analysis by exploring the ideological and tactical linkages among antifeminism, antistatism, and antiradicalism in the 1920s. Those linkages were not unique to the United States or to the 1920s, but they were intensified by the convergence of the post–World War I Red Scare and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, which created the possibility—inspiring to some, alarming to others—of united political action by female voters.

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