The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30

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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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Introduction
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1 The Emergence of the WJCC
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2 The Lobby for the SheppardTowner Bill 1921
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3 Opposition to the State Campaign for SheppardTowner 192123
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4 The Crusade for the Child Labor Amendment 192224
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Illustrations follow page 92
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5 Allies and Opponents during the Battle for Ratification 1924
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6 Defeat of the Child Labor Amendment 192426
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8 The Impact of RightWing Attacks on the WJCC and Its Social Reform Agenda 192430
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Conclusion
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Appendixes
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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back cover
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7 The Struggle to Save the SheppardTowner Act 192630
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211 ÆäÀÌÁö - an act for the promotion of the welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy, and for other purposes.
81 ÆäÀÌÁö - The power of the several states is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by Congress.
231 ÆäÀÌÁö - Maternal and Child Health and Mental Retardation Planning Amendments of 1963 and the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963 (77 Stat.
81 ÆäÀÌÁö - The Congress shall have the power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age.
28 ÆäÀÌÁö - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
68 ÆäÀÌÁö - ... parental responsibility with respect to the employment of children; to assist in protecting children, by suitable legislation, against premature or otherwise injurious employment...
148 ÆäÀÌÁö - Miss Bolsheviki has come to town, With a Russian cap and a German gown, In women's clubs she's sure to be found, For she's come to disarm AMERICA.
30 ÆäÀÌÁö - Next to the duty of doing everything possible for the soldiers at the front, there could be, it seems to me, no more patriotic duty than that of protecting the children, who constitute one-third of our population.
69 ÆäÀÌÁö - So here the so-called tax is a penalty to coerce people of a state to act as Congress wishes them to act in respect of a matter completely the business of a state government under the Federal Constitution.
190 ÆäÀÌÁö - Read before the Section on Preventive and Industrial Medicine and Public Health at the SeventyThird Annual Session of the American Medical Association.

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Jan Doolittle Wilson is Wellspring Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and History at the University of Tulsa.

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