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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... Maternity and Infancy Act and the child labor amendment, the committee's most consequential and contentious ... Maternity and Infancy Bill of 1921. As the bill was designed to prevent infant and maternal mortality, its supporters had ...
... infancy and maternity protection increased appropriations for education industrial legislation independent citizenship for married women regulation of the meatpacking industry and child labor social hygiene appropriations for physical ...
... Maternity and Infancy Bill received the backing of every WICC organization. It was the WICC's enormously efficient, well-publicized lobby for this bill that would cement the committee's reputation as "the most powerful lobby in ...
... Maternity and Infancy Bill. The unification of organized women's sociopolitical agendas within the Women's joint Congressional Committee and their coordinated efforts on behalf of the Sheppard-Towner Bill in the early 1 920s show that ...
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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 |