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The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920-30
2007,2010
Overview
Documenting the rise and fall of a feminist reform powerhouse, The Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism is the first comprehensive history of the umbrella organization founded in 1920 by former suffrage leaders in order to coordinate organized women's reform. Encompassing nearly every major national women's organization of its time, including the League of Women Voters, the Women's Trade Union League, and the National Consumers' League, the Women's Joint Congressional Committee (WJCC) evolved into a powerful lobbying force for the legislative agendas of more than twelve million women. As such, the WJCC was recognized by critics and supporters alike as \"the most powerful lobby in Washington.\"_x000B_ _x000B_Through a close examination of the WJCC's most consequential and contentious campaigns, Jan Doolittle Wilson demonstrates organized women's strategies, rhetoric, and initial success in generating congressional and grassroots support for their far-reaching, progressive reforms. The committee's early achievements spurred a business-led retaliation that challenged and ultimately limited the programs these women envisioned. By using the WJCC as a lens through which to analyze women's political culture during the 1920s, the book 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 faced by women trying to expand public responsibility for social welfare in the years following the nineteenth amendment's passage._x000B_
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Subject
/ Child labor-Law and legislation-United States-History
/ HISTORY
/ Maternal and infant welfare-Law and legislation-United States-History
/ Pressure groups-United States-History-20th century
/ Social legislation-United States-History-20th century
/ U.S.A
/ Women
/ Women social reformers-United States-History-20th century
/ Women's Joint Congressional Committee
/ Women-Political activity-United States-History-20th century
/ Women-United States-Societies and clubs-History-20th century
ISBN
0252031679, 9780252031670, 9780252092916, 0252092910
