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Beyond suffrage, women in the New Deal
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- Summary
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Profiles women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal administration.
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- Creator
- Susan Ware
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981
- Physical Details
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- 204 pages : graph ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0674069218, 9780674069213, 0674069226, 9780674069220
- OCLC
- ocm06889496, ocm06889496
- Revision of the author's thesis, Harvard.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- 1. The women's network -- 2. A generational approach -- 3. The critical year, 1933-1934 -- 4. Women and democratic politics -- 5. Women and social welfare policy -- 6. A generation on the wane -- Appendix A. Criteria for selection of the women -- Appendix B. Group profile and individual biographies. Grace Abbott (1878-1939) -- Mary Anderson (1872-1964) -- Marion Glass Banister (1875-1951) -- Clara Mortenson Beyer (1892- ) -- Emily Newell Blair (1877-1951) -- Jo Coffin (c.1880-1943) -- Mary W. ("Molly") Dewson (1874-1962) -- Florence ("Daisy") Jaffray Harriman (1870-1967) -- Jane Margueretta Hoey (1892-1968) -- Lucy Somerville Howorth (1895- ) -- Mary Ladame (c.1885- ?) -- Katharine Fredica Lenroot (1892- ) -- Dorothy McAlister [sic] (c.1900- ) -- Lucille Foster McMillin (c.1870-1949) -- Emma Guffey Miller (1874-1970) -- Mary T. Norton (1875-1959) -- Caroline O'Day (1869-1943) -- Ruth Bryan Owen (1885-1954) -- Frances Perkins (1880-1965) -- Josephine Aspinwall Roche (1886-1976) -- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) -- Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876-1977) -- Mary Harriman Rumsey (1881-1934) -- Rose Schneiderman (1882-1972) -- Hilda Worthington Smith (1888- ) -- Sue Shelton White (1887-1943) -- Carolyn Wolfe (1890- ?) -- Ellen Sullivan Woodward (1887-1971) -- Appendix C. Summary of biographical material -- Manuscript collections cited -- Notes -- Index