TY  - GEN
N2  - Women in the American Communist Party believed the rise of fascism in Europe was a direct threat to women’s rights. Hitler’s rise to power and what Communists read as a push to ‘nationalize’ German women’s maternity compelled Communist women to argue that fascism was a threat to women’s rights and perpetuated false ideals of ‘natural’ gender roles. Communist women dutifully followed the party’s anti-fascist line; however, they expanded it by arguing that gender inequality was on the rise in fascist nations and women’s rights had to move to the forefront of Popular Front struggles. Communists emphasized the rights of mothers and workers in an effort to better secure the rights of women. This article argues that party women rejected Nazi pronatalism, advanced women’s rights within the party’s ‘United Front’ and pushed their agenda within the American Communist Party.
AB  - Women in the American Communist Party believed the rise of fascism in Europe was a direct threat to women’s rights. Hitler’s rise to power and what Communists read as a push to ‘nationalize’ German women’s maternity compelled Communist women to argue that fascism was a threat to women’s rights and perpetuated false ideals of ‘natural’ gender roles. Communist women dutifully followed the party’s anti-fascist line; however, they expanded it by arguing that gender inequality was on the rise in fascist nations and women’s rights had to move to the forefront of Popular Front struggles. Communists emphasized the rights of mothers and workers in an effort to better secure the rights of women. This article argues that party women rejected Nazi pronatalism, advanced women’s rights within the party’s ‘United Front’ and pushed their agenda within the American Communist Party.
AD  - University of Southern Indiana
T1  - Anti-Nazism and the Fear of Pro-Natalism in the American Popular Front
DA  - 2016
AU  - Denise Lynn
L1  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474444/files/final%20paper.pdf
JF  - Radical Americas
PB  - University of College London Press
LA  - eng
PY  - 2016
ID  - 1474444
L4  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474444/files/final%20paper.pdf
KW  - Anti-Nazism, Prontalism, Communist Party USA
TI  - Anti-Nazism and the Fear of Pro-Natalism in the American Popular Front
Y1  - 2016
L2  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474444/files/final%20paper.pdf
LK  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474444/files/final%20paper.pdf
UR  - https://library.usi.edu/record/1474444/files/final%20paper.pdf
ER  -