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notes introduction 1. nancy F. cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (new Haven, conn.: Yale university Press, 1987); J. stanley lemons, The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s, 2nd ed. (charlottesville: university of Virginia Press, 1990); Jan doolittle Wilson, The Women’s Joint Congressional Committee and the Politics of Maternalism, 1920–30 (urbana: university of illinois Press, 2007). 2. charlotte Perkins Gilman, “the new Mothers of a new World,” Forerunner 4 (June 1913): 145–49; quoted from Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Nonfiction Reader, ed. larry ceplair (new York: columbia university Press, 1991), 249. 3. William H. chafe, The Paradox of Change: American Women in the Twentieth Century (new York: oxford university Press, 1991), 25. 4. rheta childe dorr, What Eight Million Women Want (Boston: small, Maynard, 1910), 328. 5. ibid., 322. 6. Molly ladd-taylor, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare and the State, 1890– 1930 (urbana: university of illinois Press, 1994), 74–103, 167–96; lemons, The Woman Citizen, 153–80; robyn Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935 (new York: oxford university Press, 1991), 93–123; Paula Baker, “the domestication of Politics: Women and american Political society, 1780–1920,” AHR 89, 3 (June 1984): 620–47; Karen J. Blair, The Clubwoman as Feminist: True Womanhood Redefined, 1868–1914 (new York: Holmes and Meier, 1980); anne Firor scott, Natural Allies: Women’s Associations in American History (urbana: university of illinois Press, 1991); anne Firor scott, The Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830–1930, 2nd ed. (charlottesville: university Press of Virginia, 1995); seth Koven and sonya Michel, “Womanly duties: Maternalist Politics and the origins of the Welfare states in France, Germany, Great Britain, and the united states, 1880–1920,” AHR 95, 4 (october 1990): 1076–1108; Kathryn Kish sklar, “the Historical Foundations of Women’s Power in the creation of the american Welfare state, 1830–1930,” in seth Koven and sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of the Welfare States (new York: routledge, 1993), 43–93; nancy a. Hewitt, “Varieties of Voluntarism: class, ethnicity, and Women’s activism in tampa” in louise a. tilly and Patricia Gurin, eds., Women, Politics, and Change (new York: russell sage, 1990), 224 notes to Pages 3–6 63–86; suzanne lebsock, “Women and american Politics, 1880–1920,” in tilly and Gurin, eds., Women, Politics, and Change, 35–62; Mari Jo Buhle, Women and American Socialism, 1870–1920 (urbana: university of illinois Press, 1981), 49–94; deborah Gray White, Too Heavy A Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894–1994 (new York: norton, 1999). 7. Quoted in cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, 100. 8. Political cartoon from Rocky Mountain News, september/october 1920, quoted in cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, 84. 9. Quoted in ellen Fitzpatrick, Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform (new York: oxford university Press, 1990), 210. 10. Quoted in clarke a. chambers, Seedtime of Reform: American Social Service and Social Action, 1918–1933 (Minneapolis: university of Minnesota Press, 1963), 2. 11. sophonisba P. Breckinridge, Women in the Twentieth Century: A Study of Their Political, Social and Economic Activities (new York: McGraw-Hill, 1933), 264. 12. ibid., 269. 13. anne Firor scott, “after suffrage: southern Women in the twenties,” Journal of Southern History 30, 3 (august 1964): 298–31, quote 318. 14. William e. leuchtenburg, The Perils of Prosperity, 1914–1932, 2nd ed. (chicago: university of chicago Press, 1993); Frederick allen lewis, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (new York: Harper, 1931). 15. Quoted in cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, 99. 16. cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism; nancy F. cott, “across the Great divide : Women in Politics Before and after 1920,” in tilly and Gurin, eds.,Women, Politics , and Change, 153–76; lemons, The Woman Citizen; William H. chafe, “Women’s History and Political History: some thoughts on Progressivism and the new deal,” in nancy a. Hewitt and suzanne lebsock, eds., Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism (urbana: university of illinois Press, 1993), 101–18. 17. ladd-taylor, Mother-Work, 169; Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion, 124–57; lemons, The Woman Citizen, 153–67; Joseph B. chepaitis, “Federal social Welfare Progressivism in the 1920s,” Social Service Review 46, 2 (1972): 213–29; Breckinridge, Women in the Twentieth Century, 257–74. 18. cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism, 101–5. 19. Quoted in ibid., 114. 20. lemons, The Woman Citizen; cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism; chafe, The Paradox of Change. 21. Mabel...

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