03432nam 2200709 450 991045168950332120200520144314.01-280-52739-00-19-802232-80-19-535834-11-4294-0593-7(CKB)1000000000465846(StDuBDS)AH24084145(SSID)ssj0000358453(PQKBManifestationID)12136310(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000358453(PQKBWorkID)10359655(PQKB)10601519(SSID)ssj0000131833(PQKBManifestationID)11937069(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000131833(PQKBWorkID)10028150(PQKB)11506988(MiAaPQ)EBC271262(MiAaPQ)EBC4701405(Au-PeEL)EBL4701405(CaPaEBR)ebr11273158(OCoLC)960164842(EXLCZ)99100000000046584620161011h19911991 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrCreating a female dominion in American reform, 1890-1935 /Robyn MuncyNew York, New York ;Oxford, [England] :Oxford University Press,1991.©19911 online resource (0 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-505702-3 0-19-508924-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Child welfareUnited StatesHistoryWomen social reformersUnited StatesHistoryWomen social workersUnited StatesHistoryWomen in the professionsUnited StatesHistoryElectronic books.Child welfareHistory.Women social reformersHistory.Women social workersHistory.Women in the professionsHistory.331.4/8136132/0973Muncy Robyn899574MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451689503321Creating a female dominion in American reform, 1890-19352009980UNINA