The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30University of Illinois Press, 2010. 10. 1. - 272페이지 The rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse Jan Doolittle Wilson offers the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate activities around women's reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women's organization of its time, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC) evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of more than twelve million women. Critics and supporters alike came to recognize it as "the most powerful lobby in Washington." Examining the WJCC's most consequential and contentious campaigns, Wilson traces how the group's strategies, rhetoric, and success generated congressional and grassroots support for their far-reaching, progressive reforms. But the committee's early achievements sparked a reaction by big business that challenged and ultimately limited the programs these women envisioned. Using the WJCC as a lens, Wilson analyzes women's political culture during the 1920s. She also sheds new light on the initially successful ways women lobbied for social legislation, the limitations of that process for pursuing class-based reforms, and the enormous difficulties the women soon faced in trying to expand public responsibility for social welfare. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Susan Armitage, Susan K. Cahn, and Deborah Gray White |
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... Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, noted, "Winning the vote did not end the woman's campaign for equality and justice. Many a hard fought battle lies ahead and its field will be found in ...
... Carrie Chapman Catt, for example, thanked each party on behalf of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for its contribution to women's political freedom. Catt was quick to observe, however, that women themselves deserved ...
... Carrie Chapman Catt optimistically concluded, "and on the whole, women have good and sufficient reason to be fairly well satisfied with this, their first participation in a great national contest.”10 Three weeks after the election, Catt ...
... Carrie Chapman Catt perceptively observed, "When a great party with seven millions majority can find nothing else to ... Catt's distrust of partisan politics. As Nancy Cott has written, "Women's efforts to enter partisan politics were ...
... Carrie Chapman Catt, who had all along doubted the wisdom of disbanding women's separate organizations on obtaining national suffrage. Keenly aware of the pitfalls of a partisan approach, former suffrage leaders attempted to devise a ...
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3 Opposition to the State Campaign for SheppardTowner 192123 | 50 |
4 The Crusade for the Child Labor Amendment 192224 | 66 |
Illustrations follow page 92 | 92 |
5 Allies and Opponents during the Battle for Ratification 1924 | 93 |
6 Defeat of the Child Labor Amendment 192426 | 110 |
8 The Impact of RightWing Attacks on the WJCC and Its Social Reform Agenda 192430 | 148 |
Conclusion | 171 |
Appendixes | 175 |
Notes | 183 |
Bibliography | 221 |
Index | 239 |
back cover | 251 |
7 The Struggle to Save the SheppardTowner Act 192630 | 133 |