Beginning an ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Molly Dewson, and the expansion of women's boundaries in the Democratic Party, 1924–1934

J. T. McGuire

DOI:10.1080/09612025.2014.906841

Corpus ID: 146773549

Beginning an ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Molly Dewson, and the expansion of women's boundaries in the Democratic Party, 1924–1934

@article{McGuire2014BeginningA,
  title={Beginning an ‘Extraordinary Opportunity’: Eleanor Roosevelt, Molly Dewson, and the expansion of women's boundaries in the Democratic Party, 1924–1934},
  author={J. T. McGuire},
  journal={Women's History Review},
  year={2014},
  volume={23},
  pages={922 - 937}
}

J. T. McGuire

Published 2014

Sociology

Women's History Review

This article contributes to recent reinterpretations of women's participation in the United States' political system in the 1920s and 1930s by arguing that the years 1924 through 1934 demonstrated an expansion of female boundaries in the Democratic Party. Eleanor Roosevelt became the first agent in this process through her involvement in both the New York State Democratic Party and in social justice feminism. Her protégée, Molly Dewson, continued the expansion as the first full-time director of… CONTINUE READING

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