After the Vote
Feminist Politics in La Guardia's New York
- Publisher's listprice GBP 36.49
-
17 433 Ft (16 602 Ft + 5% VAT)
The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.
- Discount 10% (cc. 1 743 Ft off)
- Discounted price 15 689 Ft (14 942 Ft + 5% VAT)
Subcribe now and take benefit of a favourable price.
Subscribe
17 433 Ft
Availability
Estimated delivery time: Expected time of arrival: end of January 2026.
Not in stock at Prospero.
Why don't you give exact delivery time?
Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.
Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 May 2019
- ISBN 9780199341849
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 239x163x33 mm
- Weight 680 g
- Language English 0
Categories
Short description:
New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia appointed almost a hundred women to administrative and judicial posts. No previous mayor had done anything comparable. After the Vote tells the story of these women and their work to modernize the nation's largest city and advance American women's political careers.
MoreLong description:
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.
Elisabeth Israels Perry explodes traditional assumptions that once they had the vote, American women settled passively into voting as their husbands and fathers had done. Her formidable research and vivid prose reveal that in the nation's largest city, from Greenwich Village to Harlem, women civic activists set their sights on corrupt judges, policemen, and politicians. Aligned with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, they fought to reshape courts and prisons, to rehabilitate sex workers and to punish pimps, to modernize city government and to sustain progressive agendas. Their vision, practical ideas, and sophisticated political skills continue to resonate in our own time.
Table of Contents:
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
