Elisabeth Israels Perry

After the Vote (eBook, PDF)

Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York

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Produktbeschreibung

Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission members and as secretaries, deputy commissioners, and judges. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. Aware they were breaking new ground for women in American politics, the "Women of the La Guardia Administration," as they called themselves, met frequently for mutual support and political strategizing. This is the first book to tell their stories. Author Elisabeth Israels Perry begins with the city's suffrage movement, which prepared these women for political action as enfranchised citizens. After they won the vote in 1917, suffragists joined political party clubs and began to run for office, many of them hoping to use political platforms to enact feminist and progressive public policies. Circumstances unique to mid-twentieth century New York City advanced their progress. In 1930, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized an inquiry into alleged corruption in the city's government, long dominated by the Tammany Hall political machine. The inquiry turned first to the Vice Squad's entrapment of women for sex crimes and the reported misconduct of the Women's Court. Outraged by the inquiry's disclosures and impressed by La Guardia's pledge to end Tammany's grip on city offices, many New York City women activists supported him for mayor. It was in partial recognition of this support that he went on to appoint an unprecedented number of them into official positions, furthering his plans for a modernized city government. In these new roles, La Guardia's women appointees not only contributed to the success of his administration but left a rich legacy of experience and political wisdom to oncoming generations of women in American politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199341856
• Artikelnr.: 55356501

Autorenporträt

Elisabeth Israels Perry was Professor Emeritus of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Saint Louis University. She published extensively on American women's history and was the author of Belle Moskowitz: Feminine Politics and the Exercise of Power in the Age of Alfred E. Smith, a biography of her grandmother and one of the original "Women of the La Guardia Administration."

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Profile: Pearl Bernstein: A Woman in New York Politics
1. Precedents
Part 1: At the Margins
2. Negotiating Partisanship
3. Sustaining Feminist Progressivism
Part 2: Moving toward the Center
4. Scandal in the Courts
5. Fallout
6. The Women of the Administration
7. The Election of 1937 and Beyond
Part 3: Looking Forward
8. Legacy
Appendix: "Fifty Women and One Man: A Play in Three Scenes and One Axe"
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index