Grandmothers on guard : gender, aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico border /

Grandmothers on guard : gender, aging, and the Minutemen at the US-Mexico border /

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Author / Creator:	Johnson, Jennifer L. (Jennifer Lesley), 1976- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	ix, 209 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Minuteman Project. Minuteman Project. Vigilantes -- Mexican-American Border Region. Grandmothers -- Political activity -- Mexican-American Border Region. Older women -- Political activity -- Mexican-American Border Region. Women conservatives -- Political activity -- Mexican-American Border Region. Vigilantes. North America -- Mexican-American Border Region.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12572959

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ISBN:	9781477322758 1477322752 9781477322765 9781477322772
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Drawing on extensive research, including 900 hours of interviews, often recorded in the field, this project examines the place of older women in the conservative vigilante group the Minutemen. Active largely between 2005 and 2014, the group organized hundreds of volunteers to physically patrol the US-Mexico border, while encouraging nativist views on a national scale. Johnson is interested in the small but very active group of women, mostly older and retired, who organized and patrolled on the border in a group dominated by men. Within this group of women--Johnson closely follows seventeen in the study--the role of grandmotherhood took on a particular symbolic weight as a way of reaffirming these women's roles within family units, largely based on ideals of domesticity associated with the 1950s, and as a way of allaying their fears of becoming increasingly obsolete in society. Yet, these women also subverted some of their traditionally gendered roles, both within camps on the border and through the internet and mass media"--
Govt.docs classification:	Z UA380.8 J633gr

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