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- Title
"The Long Progressive Era": A Roundtable on After the Vote: Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York by Elisabeth Israels Perry.
- Authors
Sklar, Kathryn Kish; Capozzola, Christopher; Gidlow, Liette; Gustafson, Melanie; Orleck, Annelise; Warren, Kim Cary; Williams, Mason
- Abstract
Keywords: municipal politics; New Deal; New York City; suffrage; women's history EN municipal politics New Deal New York City suffrage women's history 430 460 31 07/03/21 20210701 NES 210701 Introduction Kathryn Kish Sklar We conducted our roundtable discussions of I After the Vote i by Elisabeth Israels Perry (EIP) during the COVID-19 pandemic and insurrection winter of 2021. - Elisabeth Israels Perry[18] Elisabeth Israels Perry's I After the Vote i examines the way that politics in the nation's largest city were shaped by women's activism leading up to and following New York women winning the right to vote in 1917. See also Perry's discussion of Atlantic Crossings in Perry, "Men Are from the Gilded Age", 33-34. 13 Perry, After the Vote, 5. 14 "Women Politicians Tilt in Town Hall", New York Times, Oct. 28, 1921. By putting women at the center of the story, Perry demonstrated how central consumer politics, labor relations, the politics of vice, the domestic relations courts, and even the building of the Municipal Reference Library were to New York's local New Deal: the New Deal painted on a far broader canvas, and feminist reform visions were integral to the New Deal state. In her conclusion, Perry traced a direct line from the women who were active in government after the vote, through the 1950s when New York state had the highest number of women attorneys serving in public posts, into the 1970s where she assessed the impact of women's activism in the post-suffrage era on future Supreme Court Justice and twenty-first-century feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Bella Abzug, the first Jewish woman elected to Congress; prosecutor and Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman, who would make a national name for herself during the Watergate hearings; and Ruth Messinger, New York City Council president and later head of American Jewish World Service.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); ACTIVISM; WOMEN'S suffrage; WOMEN'S rights; POLITICAL participation; PRACTICAL politics; POLITICAL leadership; VOCATIONAL guidance
- Publication
Journal of the Gilded Age & Progressive Era, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 3, p430
- ISSN
1537-7814
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1537781421000268