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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... Nineteenth Amendment. Standing before the women assembled, Maud Wood Park, chairperson of the newly created National League of Women Voters, declared: "No such body of citizens with unselfish aim has ever before made itself articulate ...
... Nineteenth Amendment. Through an examination of the WICC's campaigns for the SheppardTowner Maternity and Infancy Act and the child labor amendment, the committee's most consequential and contentious political battles during the 1920s ...
... nineteenth-century separatist politics. Rather, the WICC was born out of both a recognition of the difficulties ... amendment benefited from politicians' desire to appeal to women voters and their fear that their refusal to do so would ...
... Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, thus ending the seventy-two-year struggle for women's suffrage formally launched in I 848 at Seneca Falls, New York. Most women who had been active in the suffrage campaign, however, realized ...
... Nineteenth Amendment. One month after ratification, the New York Herald declared that the entire nation was waiting to see how women would vote in the upcoming election. The Herald speculated whether women would vote according to the ...
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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 |