9780195089240-0195089243-Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935

Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935

ISBN-13: 9780195089240
ISBN-10: 0195089243
Edition: 50768th
Author: Robyn Muncy
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780195089240
ISBN-10: 0195089243
Edition: 50768th
Author: Robyn Muncy
Publication date: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 240 pages

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Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (ISBN-13: 9780195089240 and ISBN-10: 0195089243), written by authors Robyn Muncy, was published by Oxford University Press in 1994. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Linguistics, Words, Language & Grammar , Social Work, Social Sciences, Women's Studies, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.38.

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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 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.

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