Examining the political activities of the period between 1920, when women gained the right to vote, and the mid-1960s, when the women's movement revived, Cynthia Harrison illuminates a long-neglected but vital chapter of women's history.
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Everybody knows that the women's movement began in the Sixties, but this well-researched and clearly written book demonstrates that federal policies of the apparently quiescent preceding years gave it something to build on. Harrison gives historical perspective by carefully investigating policymaking, Presidential appointments, and incremental changes affecting women during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations, and argues that good political strategies can achieve effective policy instruments, regardless of the times. As a case study in effective strategies for political action in the absence of a strong social movement, it provides a realistic lesson. Recommended for public and academic libraries. Mary Drake McFeely, Univ. of Georgia Lib., Athens
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World War II put women into work they had never done before. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
equal pay committee, equal pay bill, sex amendment, equal pay legislation, protective labor legislation, protective labor laws, token appointments, female appointments, sex provision, equal pay law, technical secretary, constitutional equality, appointment record Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Women's Bureau, White House, National Woman, Esther Peterson, Department of Labor, New York, World War, John Kennedy, Supreme Court, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fourteenth Amendment, Civil Service Commission, Lyndon Johnson, Mary Anderson, Arthur Goldberg, Emma Guffey Miller, Labor Department, United States, Edith Green, Fair Labor Standards Act, Pauli Murray, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Women's Division, Marguerite Rawalt New!
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equal pay committee, equal pay bill, sex amendment, equal pay legislation, protective labor legislation, protective labor laws, token appointments, female appointments, sex provision, equal pay law, technical secretary, constitutional equality, appointment record Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Women's Bureau, White House, National Woman, Esther Peterson, Department of Labor, New York, World War, John Kennedy, Supreme Court, Eleanor Roosevelt, Fourteenth Amendment, Civil Service Commission, Lyndon Johnson, Mary Anderson, Arthur Goldberg, Emma Guffey Miller, Labor Department, United States, Edith Green, Fair Labor Standards Act, Pauli Murray, Alice Paul, Frances Perkins, Women's Division, Marguerite Rawalt New!
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