Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935

Name: Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935
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ISBN: 9780195089240

ISBN-10: 0195089243

ISBN-13: 9780195089240

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Authors: Robyn Muncy

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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 theorganizational 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…

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List price: $44.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/28/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Robyn Muncy is associate professor of history at the University of Maryland. She is the author of "Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935" and the coauthor of "Engendering America: A Documentary History, 1865 to the Present".



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Origins of the Dominion: Hull House, 1890-1910



a Dominion Materializes: the Children's Bureau, 1903-1917



Staffing the Dominion: the School of Social Service Administration, 1903-1930



Consolidation and Expansion of the Dominion: the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act, 1918-1924



Contraction and Dissolution of the Female Dominion: Federal Child Welfare Policy, 1924-1935


Conclusion


Notes


Index