Title Creating a female dominion in American reform, 1890-1935 / Robyn Muncy

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 221 pages) Summary In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that attempted to control child welfare policy. Within this policymaking body, female progressives professionalized their values, bureaucratized their methods, and institutionalized their reforming networks. To refer to the organizational structure embodying these processes, the book develops the original concept of a female dominion in the otherwise male empire of policymaking. At the head of this dominion stood the Children's Bureau in the federal Department of Labor. Muncy investigates the development of the dominion and its particular characteristics, such as its monopoly over child welfare and its commitment to public welfare, and shows how it was dependent on a peculiarly female professionalism. By exploring that process, this book illuminates the relationship between professionalization and reform, the origins and meaning of Progressive reform, and the role of gender in creating the American welfare state Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-211) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Child welfare -- United States -- History Women social reformers -- United States -- History Women social workers -- United States -- History Women in the professions -- United States -- History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Child welfare Women in the professions Women social reformers Women social workers Jeugdhulpverlening. Vrouwenbeweging. United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1429405937 9781429405935 9780195057027 0195057023 9780195089240 0195089243 9780195358346 0195358341 0190282320 9780190282325 1280527390 9781280527395 0198022328 9780198022329

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