Women on the Right

<b><i>Women on the Right</i> explores the complex relationships between conservative and right-wing politics social action and women actors from the late 19th to the late 20th century.</b> Edited by Clarisse Berthezène Laura Lee Downs and Julie V. Gottlieb each essay examines the spectrum of women's engagement with right-wing politics from centrist and 'progressive conservatism' groups to authoritarianism and fascism.<br/><br/>This book uses local and national case studies to explore a wide range of women's social and political mobilizations. Using a bottom-up perspective it stays focused on the ideas ambitions and practices of the actors themselves. Key points of comparison include: the very different roles played by religious institutions and associations the broader regional and national contexts and the dynamics that favour - or not - the eventual construction of welfare states. <i>Women on the Right</i> consistently adopts a multinational and multidimensional approach by bringing together a team of expert contributors to engage in a discussion of the comparative and transnational features of right-wing women's political thought and practice. The result is a unique contribution to the historical understanding of women's participation in - and ideas about - conservative activism.