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001474444 02470 $$a10.14324/111.444.ra.2016.v1.1.004$$2DOI
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001474444 041__ $$aeng
001474444 245__ $$aAnti-Nazism and the Fear of Pro-Natalism in the American Popular Front
001474444 260__ $$bUniversity of College London Press
001474444 269__ $$a2016
001474444 300__ $$a25-43
001474444 520__ $$aWomen 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.
001474444 6531_ $$aAnti-Nazism, Prontalism, Communist Party USA
001474444 7001_ $$aDenise Lynn$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana$$10000-0002-3170-3644
001474444 773__ $$tRadical Americas
001474444 8564_ $$97015d634-eeca-4a86-91e5-3bf4fd7b23f3$$s93703$$uhttps://library.usi.edu/record/1474444/files/final%20paper.pdf
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001474444 980__ $$aMANUSCRIPT