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Rockefeller Archive Center Research Reports are created by recipients of research travel stipends and by many others who have conducted research at the RAC. The reports demonstrate the breadth of the RAC's archival holdings, particularly in the study of philanthropy and its effects. Read more about the history of philanthropy at resource.rockarch.org. Also, see the RAC Bibliography of Scholarship, a comprehensive online database of publications citing RAC archival collections.

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Debating Family Values: Women, Grassroots Politics, and the New Right

January 1, 2009

My dissertation, "Debating Family Values: Women, Grassroots Politics, and the New Right," examines how a conservative definition of "family values" became ascendant in American politics and policy-making. I examined New York State in the 1970s and 1980s when feminist activism and an emerging conservative family values movement competed side-by-side to define the family. Relating local events to national political realignment, I illustrate how conservative activist, led by suburban women, shifted party politics to the right -- especially by concentrating on issues such as abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), and statesubsidized daycare.

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