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A new history of feminism in the United States: From the 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act to the 1964 Civil Rights Act

Doctor :Marie Gilberte FAUVRELLE
Thesis date :20 February 2013
Hours :14h
Discipline :Politic science
Add to calendar 02/20/2013 14:00 02/20/2013 17:00 Europe/Paris A new history of feminism in the United States: From the 1948 Women's Armed Services Integration Act to the 1964 Civil Rights Act In 1948 President Harry S Truman signed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act. This law is in fact an exploit of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, representing the state of Maine. In 1948, through the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, Mrs Smith proposed a career to those thousands of women w... false MM/DD/YYYY
Jury :

Jennifer MERCHANT - Professor

Andrew DIAMOND - Professor (université Paris 4)

Donna KESSELMAN - Professor (université Paris 12)

Claudette FILLARD - Professor (université Lyon 2)

Fatma RAMDANI - Associate Professor (université Paris 13)

In 1948 President Harry S Truman signed the Women's Armed Services Integration Act. This law is in fact an exploit of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, representing the state of Maine. In 1948, through the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, Mrs Smith proposed a career to those thousands of women who saw, in the army, a new horizon. Margaret Chase Smith met Senator Joseph McCarthy, at the head of the HUAC in the Fifties. While servicewomen benefited from the Women's Armed Services Integration Act, the other american women organized for their rights, especially through trade unions. Feminine activism was alive in the Fifties which can be seen as the missing wave coined by historian Dorothy Sue Cobble. This thesis, having as background the case study of some 200 women questioned before McCarthy's HUAC, sheds light on  individuals, real women who were the main characters of historical change, namely an equality achieved through the Civil Rights Act. The Bibliographical Agency of Higher education (ABES), proposes a plethora of works on the McCarthyism but not one of them has as subject the women before the HUAC or other Committees of inquiry on Communism in the Fifties.