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Author Wilson, Jan Doolittle, 1972-

Title The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the politics of maternalism, 1920-30 / Jan Doolittle Wilson
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Women in American history
Women in American history.
Contents Introduction -- The emergence of the WJCC -- The lobby for the Sheppard-Towner Bill, 1921 -- Opposition to the state campaign for Sheppard-Towner, 1921-23 -- The crusade for the child labor amendment, 1922-24 -- Allies and opponents during the battle for ratification, 1924 -- Defeat of the child labor amendment, 1924-26 -- The struggle to save the Sheppard-Towner Act, 1926-30 -- The impact of right-wing attacks on the WJCC and its social reform agenda, 1924-30 -- Conclusion
Summary This is the first comprehensive history of the Womens Joint_x000B_Congressional Committee (WJCC), a large umbrella organization_x000B_founded by former suffrage leaders in 1920 in order to coordinate organized womens reform. Encompassing nearly every major national womens organization of its time, the WJCC evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of twelve million women, and was recognized by critics and supporters alike as the most powerful lobby in Washington.? _x000B__x000B_Through a close examination of the WJCCs most consequential and contentious campaigns, Jan Doolittle Wilson demonstrates organized womens strategies and initial success in generating congressional and grassroots support for their far-reaching, progressive reforms. By using the WJCC as a lens through which to analyze womens political culture during the 1920s, the book also sheds new light on the initially successful ways women lobbied for social legislation, the inherent limitations of that process for pursuing classbased reforms, and the enormous difficulties faced by women trying to expand public responsibility for social welfare in the years following the Nineteenth Amendments passage._x000B_
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women's Joint Congressional Committee.
Women's Joint Congressional Committee
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women social reformers -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History -- 20th century
Pressure groups -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Social legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Maternal and infant welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
Child labor -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Child labor -- Law and legislation
Maternal and infant welfare -- Law and legislation
Pressure groups
Social legislation
Women -- Political activity
Women social reformers
Women -- Societies and clubs
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019718670
ISBN 9780252092916
0252092910
1283583283
9781283583282
9786613895738
6613895733