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 |
도서 본문에서
60개의 결과 중 1 - 5개
... National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) National Congress of Mothers and ParentTeacher Associations (PTA) National Consumers' League (NCL) National Council for Prevention of War (NCPW) National ...
... National Association of Manufacturers and provided me with funding and housing. Dr. Roger Horowitz, associate director of the Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, offered important observations on my work ...
... associations, such as the National Association of Manufacturers [NAM] and the Allied Industries of Massachusetts. These associations often supported and even financed the right-wing campaigns of patriotic organizations like the Woman ...
... 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 unexpected places."l Immediately ...
... National American Woman Suffrage Association for its contribution to women's political freedom. Catt was quick to observe, however, that women themselves deserved most of the credit for the suffrage victory and that if both parties had ...
목차
1 | |
9 | |
27 | |
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 |