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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... politics of maternalism, 1920—30 / Ian Doolittle Wilson. p. cm. — )Women in American history) Includes bibliographical references and index. For Nathan and Zoey Contents List ofAcronyms viii Acknowledgments iX. ISBN-13: 978-0-252-03 167 ...
... political agendas of twelve million women representing twenty-one national organizations—including the National League of Women Voters (LWV), the National Women's Trade Union League {WTUL}, and the National Consumers' League {NCL)—and ...
... political efforts during the decade. Using the WICC as a lens through which to analyze women's political culture during the 1920s, therefore, sheds new light on the initially successful process by which women lobbied for social ...
... political conservatism and interest-group politics, moreover, the use of such gendered ideology initially allowed the WICC to characterize its members' social agendas in terms of the public good and, hence, to generate congressional and ...
... political parties.11 Whereas many women in this period aligned themselves with one of the two major political parties and opposed the creation of a woman's voting bloc, most who had been politically active before 1920 chose to continue ...
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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 |