Michelle Nickerson

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Michelle Nickerson is Associate Professor at Loyola University Chicago. She is author of Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right and co-editor of Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region. Nickerson is currently writing about new left radicalism and Christianity in her new book, The Camden 28: Catholic Resistance to the Vietnam War.

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Catholic Women, “Family Values,” and Republican Politics: An Interview with Stacie Taranto

By Michelle Nickerson • January 24, 2018

I recently sat down with Stacie Taranto to discuss her new book, Kitchen Table Politics: Conservative Women and Family Values in New York. The book is a case study of New York State politics in the 1970s that shows how conservative “family values” rhetoric and policies became ascendant in the Republican Party. Taranto focuses on… Read more →