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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... League of Women Voters (LWV) National Woman's Party (NWP) National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) Organizations Associated for Ratification (OAR) Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Women's International League for Peace and ...
... women's organizations. Five years after its inception, the WICC served as a lobbying clearinghouse for the political agendas of twelve million women representing twenty-one national organizations—including the National League of Women ...
Jan Wilson. tention to women's differences from men and their emphasis on women's ... women based on class, race, and ethnicity; and to promote white, middle-class ... League of Women Voters, the General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC), and ...
... women's full citizenship. As the Woman Citizen, the official publication of the National League of Women Voters, warned, "Now that the vote is won, . . . [w]omen who have worked hand in hand for years find themselves split up into ...
... League of Women Voters readily afforded, as well as a chance for her to continue work for child welfare, social hygiene, protective industrial laws, and legal equality. Until the parties recognized women as political equals, she warned ...
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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 |