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A POLICY OF OUR OWN: LOCAL FEMINIST NETWORKS AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN
Authors:Janet K. Boles
Affiliation:Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Marquette University, and the editor of the The Egalitarian City (Praeger, 1986). Her published research focuses on family policy, women and politics, and the proposed Equal Rights Amendment. From 1985 to 1988, she served on the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services Child Development and Day Care Advisory Committee.
Abstract:
This article examines the ways in which a feminist family policy agenda has led to significant political action and change within American cities. Feminist groups, during the past fifteen years, became a part of emerging local women's rights policy networks that effected changes in several services for women and children: libraries (programming for women and non-sexist children's literature acquisitions policies); public education (gender equit under Title IX); social welfare (child care and displaced homemaker services); and criminal justice and health (the treatment of the victims of rape and domestic violence). This policy success stems not only from the workings of traditional interest group politics and policy networks but also from the astute use of political symbols, bureaucratic norms, and the federal system.
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