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The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio

Brown, Rebekah A.S.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274

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2019, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, History.
After the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, the League of Women Voters worked on the national, state, and local levels for gradual institutional reform. Using Western Ohio as a regional focus, this thesis shows how the Ohio League of Women Voters (OLWV) articulated a vision for post-suffrage women’s activism during the interwar period. To do this, the OLWV built upon pre-existing reform structures, especially when trying to involve rural women in its reform measures. As an organization of mostly elite, urban women, the OLWV struggled to construct a broad-based women’s coalition post-suffrage. Though the OLWV operated within a dense network of women’s organizations that both cooperated and competed, it’s role within the rural reform tradition has been understudied. This thesis analyzes records from the OLWV archives alongside local agricultural reform institutions like the Grange and Farm Women’s Clubs to construct a picture of how these organizations interacted to pursue reform in the 1920s. Over the 1920s, the OLWV shifted its strategy from suffrage-era calls for female unity to specific focus on recruiting college women and promoting urban reform priorities. The OLWV’s struggles to include rural women, among many other groups, and its reinvention in the post-suffrage era shows the formation of a new reform synthesis within the women’s reform movement.
Rebecca Mancuso, Dr. (Advisor)
Nicole Jackson, Dr. (Committee Member)
103 p.
American History; History; Regional Studies
Womens History; Rural History; Ohio History; Suffrage; Post Suffrage; Volunteerism; Voluntary Associations; Farm Women; Womens Activism; 20th Century

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  • Brown, R. A.S. (2019). The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brown, Rebekah. The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio. 2019. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brown, Rebekah. "The League of Women Voters, Social Change, and Civic Education in 1920's Ohio." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu155473074939274

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