Bøger af Catherine E. Rymph

Tracing the evolution of the modern American foster care system from its inception in the 1930s through the 1970s, Catherine Rymph argues that deeply gendered, domestic ideals, implicit assumptions about the relative value of poor children, and the complex public/private nature of American welfare provision fuelled the cultural resistance to funding maternal and parental care.

Explores the dilemmas confronting progressive, conservative, and moderate Republican women as they sought to achieve a voice for themselves within the Grand Old Party (GOP). This book examines women's grassroots organizing for the party, in the decades following the initiation of women's suffrage.