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Archival photograph of five women seated together
Пять женщин-офицеров Женской лиги в Ньюпорте, Род-Айленд, ок. 1899 г.

Движение женских клубов было общественным движением , имевшим место по всей территории Соединенных Штатов, которое утвердило идею о том, что у женщин есть моральный долг и ответственность за преобразование государственной политики. В то время как женские организации всегда были частью истории Соединенных Штатов, только в эпоху прогрессивного развития они стали считаться «движением». Первая волна клубного движения в прогрессивную эпоху была начата белыми, представителями среднего класса, протестантскими женщинами, а вторая фаза - афроамериканками. [1]

Эти клубы, большинство из которых начинались как общественные и литературные собрания, в конечном итоге стали источником реформ для решения различных проблем в США. Клубы афро-американских и белых женщин занимались вопросами образования, воздержания , детского труда , ювенальной юстиции , правовая реформа, охрана окружающей среды, создание библиотек и многое другое. [2] Женские клубы помогли начать многие инициативы, такие как детские сады и системы судов по делам несовершеннолетних. Позже женские клубы занимались такими вопросами, как избирательное право женщин , линчевание и планирование семьи.. Клубы позволили женщинам, которые в то время не имели большого политического статуса, получить большее влияние в своих общинах. По мере того как женщины получали больше прав, потребность клубов в политическом и социальном влиянии становилась менее важной. Со временем участие в женских клубах в США уменьшилось. Однако многие клубы по-прежнему продолжают работать и влиять на свои сообщества.

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Движение женских клубов стало частью социальной реформы прогрессивной эпохи , которая нашла отражение во многих реформах и проблемах, решаемых членами клуба. [3] По словам Морин А. Фланаган, многие женские клубы сосредоточились на благополучии своего сообщества из-за их общего опыта заботы о благополучии в семейной жизни. [4] Заботу о сообществе часто называли «муниципальным ведением домашнего хозяйства» в эпоху прогрессивного развития и отражали общую веру многих членов клубов в то, что дом и городская жизнь были связаны через мэрию. [5] Создавая идею ведения домашнего хозяйства на муниципальном уровне , женщины также смогли оправдать свое участие в правительстве. [6] Позже, в 1921 г.,Элис Эймс Винтер описывает, как женщины начали рассматривать «свои дома как единицы, из которых построено общество», и что семейная жизнь и общественная жизнь были связаны. [7] Женские клубы «утвердили идею о том, что на женщинах лежит моральный долг и ответственность за преобразование, определение и формирование государственной политики». [8] Женские клубы также были «школами» для женщин, которые хотели работать в общественной сфере. [9] Они помогли женщинам достичь как социальной, так и политической власти. [10]

Многие женские клубы увеличили свое членство за счет того, что другие члены спонсируют или номинируют новых членов в группу. [11] [12] Клубы часто организовывались по комитетам [13] или подразделениям. [14] Многие женские клубы создали и заняли свои собственные клубы. [15] Сегодня эти клубы по-прежнему являются местом женских встреч и других собраний. [12] Некоторые женские клубы создали и продолжают выпускать собственные журналы и информационные бюллетени. [16] [17]

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Штаб-квартира Федерации женских клубов Миннесоты в Миннеаполисе, около 1920 г.

До основания первых женских клубов прогрессивной эры, Сорозиса и Женского клуба Новой Англии , большинство женских организаций были вспомогательными организациями мужских групп или были связаны с церковью. [18] Джейн Каннингем Кроли из Всеобщей федерации женских клубов (GFWC) писала в 1898 году, что женщины впервые смогли выйти из дома через религиозные учреждения. [19]

Приняв участие в церковных или благотворительных группах, женщины смогли найти товарищеские отношения и способ способствовать изменениям в своих общинах. [20] Это также был один из немногих способов, которым женщинам изначально разрешалось вносить свой вклад вне дома. [21] Некоторые из первых организаций, возглавляемых женщинами, были созданы как религиозные группы в начале девятнадцатого века. [22] Белые женщины были вовлечены в церковные благотворительные группы еще в 1790-х годах. [23]

Позже, начиная с 1840-х годов , женщины также начали участвовать в группах против рабства, в группах воздержания и в женских организациях избирательного права . [20] [24] Афроамериканские женщины помогли организовать множество групп против рабства, самые ранние из которых были созданы в 1832 году, а белые женщины последовали примеру черных женщин в создании групп отмены рабства. [25]

Когда у женщин стало больше свободного времени, они открыли женские клубы. [26] Изначально большинство женских клубов было сосредоточено на литературной деятельности, самосовершенствовании и создании социальных возможностей для белых женщин из среднего класса . [3] Эти клубы позволили женщинам обмениваться идеями и помогли им осознать, что их мысли важны и что вместе они могут действовать в соответствии с ними. [27] Литературные женские клубы в пионерских районах давали женщинам возможность научиться читать и завести друзей. [28] Многие женские клубы содержали коллекции книг для членов клубов. [29] Вместо создания литературного клуба женщины в Галвестоне создали научный клуб, который также был сосредоточен на обучении.[30]

Кроли отмечает, что женские клубы не создавались для копирования мужских групп; вместо этого они часто создавались, чтобы дать женщинам возможность на равных делиться идеями; [31] эти идеи часто претворялись в жизнь. Мэри И. Вуд и Анна Дж. Х. (миссис Перси В.) Пеннибакер описали это: «Очень рано клубные женщины перестали желать обсуждать Данте и Браунинга за чашками, на встречах их сверстников в гостиной какой-то леди, в то время как неприглядные груды мусора обрамляли дороги, по которым они шли, пока шли туда ". [32] Женщины оправдывали свое движение к социальной реформе, используя викторианскую идею о том, что женщины по своей природе морально превосходят мужчин. [10]По мере того как клубы переходили от самосовершенствования к развитию сообщества, женские клубы на западе США несколько отставали от клубов, сформированных в более развитых частях страны. [33] Женские клубы в конце 1800-х годов описывали себя как попытку «оказать очищающее и облагораживающее влияние» на свои сообщества. [34] Они также рассматривали женские клубы как интеллектуальное и практическое благо, которое сделает женщин лучше и сделает страну лучше. [35]

Сорозис и GFWC значительно увеличили количество членов в 1889 и 1890 годах. [36] GFWC выросла примерно до миллиона женщин к 1910 году, [24] и до полутора миллионов к 1914 году. [37] Создание зонтичной организации. поскольку многие женские клубы позволили им работать вместе более скоординированным образом. [38] Однако GFWC исключил афроамериканские клубы из своего членства [18], а многие клубы белых в конце 1800-х годов исключили из членства чернокожих женщин, а также еврейских женщин. [39]Клубы белых женщин игнорировали расовое неравенство из-за разногласий по этому поводу, и если они действительно обращались к расовому неравенству, они делали это «тактично, чтобы получить членов и поддержку». [40] Некоторые клубы белых женщин откровенно не интересовались вопросами, касающимися афроамериканцев, потому что они «поддерживали расистскую идеологию и обычаи своей эпохи». [41]

Женский клуб Chautauqua собрался в Вашингтоне, округ Колумбия, на пригласительный прием, устроенный Элеонорой Рузвельт.

Женские клубы были очень активны в избирательном праве женщин (см. Ниже) и помогали поддерживать военные усилия во время Первой мировой войны . Женщины в клубах собирали деньги, работали с Красным Крестом , финансировали Home Guard и устанавливали связи внутри сообщества для быстрого обмена информацией. [24] Женские клубы также вязали носки, скручивали бинты для солдат и продавали военные облигации . [42] В Техасе Федерация женских клубов Техаса (TFWC) помогла создать развлекательные столовые для солдат. [43] В течение 1930 - х лет, женские клубы принимали программы в согласии с администрацией Прогресса работ .[44] Когдаразразилась Вторая мировая война, женские клубы были вовлечены в волонтерскую деятельность. [23] В 1960-х годах, во время движения за гражданские права , женские клубы снова выросли в размерах. [23]

Несмотря на то, что существовало множество организаций, которые поощряли изменения в отношении детского труда, GFWC стала сторонником некоторых из первых законов о детском труде. Детей нанимали, потому что они были дешевле и управляемы, чем взрослые. [45] В начале 1900-х годов женские трудовые организации были созданы для защиты своих прав. Среди них была Ленора О'Рейли, которая помогла разработать WTUL, который поддерживает запросы о заработной плате и способствует прекращению детского труда. [46]

Афро-американское клубное движение [ править ]

Eartha White (center, first row) is pictured with delegates at the State Meeting of the City Federation of Colored Women's Clubs of Jacksonville, at Palatka, Florida – May 16, 1915.

Even before African Americans were freed from slavery, black women had started to come together to create organizations which looked after their community's welfare.[47] Black women were very quick to "organize themselves for self-help".[47] One of the first African-American women's club was the Female Benevolent Society of St. Thomas, in Philadelphia, which was started in 1793.[25] At the time, Philadelphia had numerous black organizations.[48] After the African Benevolent Society in Newport, Rhode Island would not allow women to be officers or vote, women created their own group.[25] Another group, the Colored Female Religious and Moral Society in Salem, Massachusetts was created in 1818.[25] Black women's clubs helped raise money for the anti-slavery newspaper The North Star.[25] Many black churches owed their existence to the dedicated work of African-American women organizing in their communities.[49] Black women's literary clubs began to show up as early as 1831, with the Female Literary Society of Philadelphia.[50]

After slavery was ended in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment in 1865,[51] black women continued to organize and often worked with churches to ensure their communities were taken care of.[52][53] Many of these organizations were "so resilient that they were able to survive the twin disasters of bank failure and yellow fever".[53] In 1868, black women's clubs were formed in Harris County, Texas.[54] Between 1880 and 1920, black women in Indianapolis, Indiana had created more than 500 clubs addressing various issues.[49]

During the Progressive era, many black women migrated to the Northern United States and into more urban areas.[55] The club movement for black women in the 1890s began to focus on "social and political reform"[56] and were more secular.[57] Black women had to face the same issues as white women during this period, but were often excluded from services and help that benefited whites only.[58] Black women were not only excluded from white clubs, but also were often excluded from clubs created by black men.[59] In addition, many black women felt as though they were defying stereotypes for their community.[60] Woman's clubs allowed black women to combat the period's stereotypes which "portrayed African American women as devoid of morality, sexually wanton and incapable of upholding marital and family responsibilities".[61] Being a member of a woman's club also helped give black women greater social standing in their communities.[62]

Black colleges helped the creation of African-American women's clubs.[58] Ida B. Wells was an important figure in the growth of these clubs during the Progressive Era.[63] Several clubs, named after her, were created in large cities across the country.[64] Other influential woman's club organizers were Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin and Mary Church Terrell.[65] In 1896, the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) was founded.[18] The NACW grew out of anti-lynching campaigns spearheaded by Wells.[56] Well's anti-lynching campaign provoked the president of the Missouri Press Association who viciously attacked black women in a letter that was widely circulated among women's clubs by Ruffin.[66] Ruffin eventually helped bring together the NACW, using the letter as a "call to action".[66]

First Convention of the Montana Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, Butte, Montana, August 3, 1921

Both black and white women were involved in creating the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909 and were often involved in much of the organization's local work.[63] By 1900, almost every black community had a women's club.[67] By 1910, in proportion to population size, African-American women's clubs outpaced white women's clubs in the number of clubs created.[47] By 1914, the NACW had fifty-thousand members and over a thousand clubs participating in the umbrella organization.[68] Black women wanted to be visible and NACW helped them organize to improve conditions in their communities.[69] There were also many African-American versions of the WCTU and the YWCA.[68]

The NACW raised more than $5 million in war bonds during World War I.[70] The Woman's Club of Norfolk wrote letters and sent care packages to the segregated black units sent to fight overseas.[71] During the Great Depression, black women's clubs began to move towards "structural change and electoral politics".[72] The National Council of Negro Women (NCNW) became a dominant group in the women's club movement in African-American circles.[72] After World War II, working class and poor black women took the place of upper-class black women in organizing communities.[73]

Faculty Wives clubs[edit]

Faculty Wives clubs began to be formed in many American universities in the early 20th century. They were brought together through the careers of the members' spouses. The clubs were localized around their particular affiliation and geographically restricted, thus most of their clubs did not receive the same volume of members nor the publicity of some of the earlier groups. However, their existence can still be seen in various archives at universities across the United States such as University of Washington, Kent State University, Emporia State University, and Ball State University.[74][75][76][77]

These Faculty Wives clubs were formed during the Progressive era and served the same functions of community, cultural education, and service that characterized larger groups. One of the clubs' primary functions was fostering community among those affiliated with the university. The wives at Ball State University held regular dinners for their husbands, both to relieve stress and build relationships.[77] At University of Washington the wives formed a "Newcomers club" to ensure that the new faculty wives felt welcome and included at the university.[74]

Along with fostering relations, the various clubs volunteered their time and skills to benefit their wider community. At Emporia State University the Faculty Wives club made bandages for the Red Cross during World War I, and sewed regularly for the Red Cross during World War II.[76] At Ball State University the club sewed regularly at the local hospital.[77]

The Faculty Wives clubs were prominent throughout much of the 20th century. During the latter half some of the clubs merged with other groups to form University Women's club, reflecting the change in faculty diversity and gender roles in the United States.[77][76][75] Other wives clubs have remained independent and vibrant in their community, like the one at the University of Washington.[74]

Decline of woman's clubs[edit]

African-American women's clubs began to decline in the 1920s.[78] By the 1960s, interest and membership in white women's clubs started to decline.[20] As women had more opportunities to socialize, many clubs found their members were aging and were unable to recruit newer members.[11][79]

Woman's clubs began to turn over their work to city entities and became less influential.[80] In addition, more women began to enter the workforce during the 1960s and had less spare time to devote to club work.[81]

Many women today are working long hours or spending time with their children's extracurricular activities.[82] By 2010, the number of women's clubs had significantly decreased across the country.[83] This reflects a trend in all club memberships in the United States: most clubs are losing members because there is a lack of leisure time for younger people.[82]

Woman's clubs today[edit]

University Woman's Club at the University of the Fraser Valley, 2012

Some clubs are still active. The Houston Heights Woman's Club and The Women's Club of Forest Hills have found ways to reach out to younger residents in the community as recently as 2007 with the creation of an evening group.[84] Some clubs have had success with creating programs that are meant to be attractive to younger women.[85] The Des Moines Women's Club established in 1885, continues to support the community today with scholarships, an annual art exhibition, and continued support to its historic club house and museum, Hoyt Sherman Place. Shrilee Haizlip, president of the Ebell Club in Los Angeles, emphasizes what makes women's clubs unique: "It is a wondrous thing to be constantly surrounded by three generations of women."[85]

Women's clubs continue their original missions of concern for the welfare of their communities.[86] The GFWC gives out the Croly Award for excellence in journalism on topics relating to women.[87] The GFWC also provides scholarships for women, especially those who have survived domestic violence.[87] The NACWC continues to be one of the top ten non-profit organizations in the United States.[88] It has adopted modern issues to tackle, such as fighting AIDS and violence against women.[70] Many of today's women's clubs also provide cultural opportunities for their communities.[89] Other groups continue to support their original missions, such as the Alpha Home, which provides care for elderly black people.[49] Women's clubs that exist today were adaptable in response to societal changes over time.[90]

Impact[edit]

Women's clubs, especially during the Progressive era, helped shape their communities and the country.[18] Many progressive ideals were pressed into action through the resources of women's clubs, including kindergartens, juvenile courts, and park conservation.[91][92][93] Women's clubs, many with their literary backgrounds, helped promote and raise money for schools, universities and libraries.[18][94][95] Women's clubs were often at the forefront of various civil rights issues, denouncing lynching, promoting women's rights and voting rights.[56][96]

Civil rights[edit]

Women's clubs helped promote civil rights, as well as improving conditions for black women in the country.[97] A woman's club in California, the Fannie Jackson Coppin Club, was created by African Americans to "provide hospitality and housing services to African-American visitors who were not welcomed in the segregated hotels and other businesses" in the state.[98] Some white woman's clubs promoted desegregation early on, though these efforts were small in scope. The Chicago Woman's Club admitted a black member, Fannie Barrier Williams, only after a long approval process,[99][100][101][102] which included the club deciding not to exclude anyone based on race.[103] Few clubs worked together across racial boundaries, although the YWCA and the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL) did sometimes welcome bi-racial collaboration.[104]

The Woman's Missionary Council for the southern Methodist church spoke out against lynching.[60] Women's clubs, like the Texas Association of Women's Clubs also denounced lynching.[105] The purpose of the ASWPL was to end lynching in the United States.[106][107]

Women's groups, like the NACWC, began to support desegregation in the 1950s.[70] The Montana Federation of Colored Women's Clubs led campaigns for civil rights between 1949 and 1955.[108] They also helped draft anti-segregation legislation.[108] The initial organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 was the Woman's Political Council of Montgomery.[109]

Some women's clubs also worked to understand people's fear of immigrants during the late 1900s.[110] Settlement houses, created by woman's clubs, helped settle and integrate European immigrants.[111]

Education[edit]

Women's clubs were noted for promoting educational efforts around the country by their contemporaries.[112] Putting women onto school boards was part of many women's club agendas in the late 1800s[113] and early 1900s.[114] Women's groups also influenced discussions about classroom size; the Chicago Woman's City Club asking that there be no more than thirty children per class.[115] Chicago clubs also helped sponsor school lunches for students.[116] Clubwomen have also protested cuts in teacher's salaries.[71] Black women's clubs worked to create educational opportunities for their communities when these areas were ignored by white people.[117]

Kindergartens and nursery schools in the United States were the creation of women's clubs. The first nursery school in the United States was created through women's clubs and club members in Chicago.[91] The Woman's Club of El Paso started the first kindergarten in the state of Texas in 1893.[118][119] Women's clubs were often involved with creating schools for delinquent boys and girls. The Texas Association of Women's Clubs (TAWC) worked for several decades to create what would later become the Crockett State School which was originally meant to help "delinquent" black girls.[120]

Women's clubs were involved in vocational training and pushing for additional educational options for all young people. The Woman's City Club worked with the Chicago Woman's Club and the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to create a Bureau of Vocational Supervision which could take a "personal interest in schoolchildren, working directly to place them in appropriate jobs when they left school".[115] The Bureau also created scholarships for needy students.[115] The Chicago Woman's Club raised $40,000 to create an industrial school for boys in Glenwood, Illinois.[121] Hester C. Jeffrey established woman's clubs which helped raise the funds for young black women to take classes at what would later become the Rochester Institute of Technology.[122] Clubs, like the Chicago Woman's Club, taught the blind and provided job skills.[123]

Many women's clubs believed that compulsory education for young people would help solve many child labor issues.[114] In Chicago, the Woman's City Club worked with other clubs in order to help students stay in school past age 14.[124] The Illinois Collegiate Alumnae association helped the government draw up a law in 1897 to ensure that children between the ages of seven and fourteen were in school for sixteen weeks of the year.[121]

Women's clubs helped support and influence the creation of higher education. The Texas Federation of Women's Clubs "was a significant force behind the establishment of Texas Woman's University."[125] Women's clubs helped raise money for new college buildings.[95] Other clubs created scholarship funds for their communities.[126] These organizations also helped produce research showing that higher education benefited women.[127] Women's clubs today continue to sponsor scholarships for higher education.[128]

Art and music[edit]

Women's club activities were seen by contemporaries as helping to spread art appreciation across the country.[129] Clubwomen would often donate art to schools.[130] Other clubs created traveling art collections and art libraries for communities.[131] Clubs also hosted arts exhibits.[132] The FFWC promoted Old Folks at Home by Stephen Foster as the state song.[86]

African-American women promoted the arts, focusing on "celebrating African American traditions and culture."[133] These included African-American music, theater and dance.[133] Clubwomen saw themselves as carrying on both art and tradition of their lives in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.[134] The Chicago and Northern District Association of Colored Women's Clubs (CNDA) hosted well-known singers such as Etta Moten.[135] CNDA also hosted an exhibit of African art, literature, and music called "The Negro in Art Week" in 1927.[136]

Environment and conservation[edit]

Women in the Adirondacks, photo by Katherine Elizabeth McClellan, 1898

Women's clubs were involved in protecting natural resources. Many women's clubs started out by beautifying their cities and states. Clubs would sponsor and maintain playgrounds,[132][137] and dedicate and maintain cemeteries.[138] Later, clubs, like a Michigan women's club, would work to reforest parts of the state.[139] In Idaho, women's clubs helped prevent logging in national forests.[140] GFWC had been active since 1890 in areas related to forestry and had a forestry committee.[92] This committee also disseminated information about conservation to the 800,000 members of the group.[141] The GFWC later sponsored "a natural scenic area survey" of the United States in 1915 in order to discover areas that needed conservation.[142] As women saw environmentally fragile areas start to be developed, many objected.[126] Women worked within existing clubs, and also formed new conservation-based clubs, to protect the environment.[143]

Women's clubs helped in the creation of the Mesa Verde National Park.[144] Under the direction of Virginia McClurg, women's organizations in Colorado supported the creation of the park.[145] The Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs (CFWC) helped McClurg, and created a committee that would eventually become the Colorado Cliff Dwellings Association.[146] In California, women's clubs helped preserve Sequoia trees and protested against "the environmentally destructive Hetch Hetchy Dam".[140] The Florida Federation of Women's Clubs "created the nucleus of Everglades National Park".[142] Idaho women's clubs also helped establish some of the first national parks; and in Utah, women's clubs "were instrumental in preserving Monument Valley".[140] Pennsylvanian women's clubs successfully lobbied for the creation of the Pennsylvania Department of Forestry.[147] In 1916, the GFWC supported the creation of the National Park Service.[148]

In the 1930s, clubwomen involved in the PEO Sisterhood, protected the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado.[149] In New Mexico, the Valley of Fires Recreation Area was created through the work of the Carrizozo Woman's Club.[138]

Women's clubs also helped preserve historical areas. As early as 1856, a women's organization, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, began the process of restoring and preserving Mount Vernon.[150] In addition to their preservation and conservation efforts, women's clubs in the United States (especially women in the African American Club movement) pioneered environmental activism strategies that laid the foundation for later environmental justice organizing. In fact, many black women created "redemptive spaces" for black immigrants from the rural south in northern cities in the United States where they repurposed abandoned buildings as "community centers, settlement houses, parks and playgrounds."[151]

Sanitation[edit]

The Woman's City Club and the City Club of Chicago both worked on issues relating to waste disposal.[152] The Woman's City Club was, in contrast, more interested in the health and safety of the city as opposed to the men's group who were more interested in making money from sanitation.[152] The Carrizozo Woman's Club of New Mexico helped bring sanitation to their city.[138]

Health[edit]

Women's club members were involved in hospital reform and the creation of hospitals. In Seattle, Anna Herr Clise created what later became the Seattle Children's Hospital.[153] Other clubs helped set up health centers and clinics.[154]

Women's clubs were involved with improving public hygience and food and drug safety.[20] The Ladies' Health Protective Association was established in New York City in November 1884 to address unsanitary conditions in the abattoir district, and by 1897 had become a national organization.[155][156]Women in The Pure Foods Movement, including the Pure Food Committee of the GFWC, were lobbied for a Federal bill known as the Pure Food and Drug Act.[157] In Indiana, clubwomen "secured a state laboratory of hygiene under the control of the board of health, charged with the duty of examining food and drugs and aiding in the enforcement of health laws".[158] Other clubs, like the Plymouth Woman's Club, undertook restaurant inspections on their own when there were no laws in place to regulate sanitary conditions.[126] Women were also involved in promoting clean and safe drinking water in their communities.[147]

Many women's clubs were involved in the birth control movement and promoted sex education.[159][160] Women's clubs promoted talks from experts on birth control.[161][162] The Chicago Women's Club helped organize the Illinois Birth Control League,[163] which later set up clinics around Chicago.[164][165] In Reading, Pennsylvania in 1937, Margaret Sanger was a sponsored speaker on a radio program sponsored by the Woman's Club.[166]

Libraries[edit]

See also: Public libraries in North America
Willie Massey, head of the library in Van Wyck, South Carolina. 1899

The GFWC developed a national agenda for libraries across the country.[94] Clubwomen believed that having access to books made people's lives better.[167] Women’s clubs helped establish many public libraries by contributing their book collections, raising money for building construction through a variety of activities for years, acting as librarians, cataloguing early collections, enlisting male leaders for public funding, and other management activities.[168] After the public libraries were established, women’s clubs lobbied on behalf of the public libraries in state legislatures and also for funding from the Carnegie Library Endowment.[168] According to the American Library Association (ALA) and GFWC, women’s clubs are estimated to have started between 75 and 80 percent of the public libraries in the United States.[169] In New York, Melvil Dewey found clubwomen in his state to "be staunch allies".[170]

Often, women's clubs had created their own private libraries, and from this experience wished to create community libraries for everyone to use.[171] Many women's clubs made the creation of public libraries an important part of their mission. The Woman's Club of Bala Cynwyd was formed with the main initial purpose of creating of a public library in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.[172] In Colorado, women's clubs established "traveling libraries" in conjunction with the state government.[173] They were well-received and very popular in the early 1900s around the country.[174] In Georgia, clubwomen used their traveling libraries to help combat illiteracy in both the white and black communities.[175] In South Carolina, the traveling libraries belonged to woman's clubs, but were available to the public.[176]

Cherokee County, Texas saw the creation of its first public library with the founding of the Bachelor Girl's Literary Club.[177] The El Paso Public Library was created largely by members of the Woman's Club of El Paso.[118] In Texas, the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs (TFWC) helped influence the creation of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Historical Commission.[125] Around seventy percent of all libraries in Texas were brought into existence because of TFWC.[178] Clubwomen in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, helped secure taxes to support their public library.[179] Other clubs, like those in Kentucky and Tennessee, taxed club memberships to support their libraries.[180] When libraries were threatened with elimination, clubs like the Woman's Club of Norfolk protested.[71]

Reform[edit]

Labor[edit]

Women's clubs were involved in tracking and investigating child labor and working conditions of all workers in the United States in the late nineteenth century.[157] Clubwomen worked to reduce the number of hours children were allowed to work in the state of Indiana.[93]

Some women's clubs became active in labor strikes. The Woman's City Club of Chicago became involved in strike resolution.[181] The Woman's City Club also demanded that picketers be protected by policewomen.[181] The Woman's Club of Chicago helped form the Illinois Woman's Alliance (IWA) in order to "prevent the exploitation of women in sweatshops".[182] Women-led organizations, like the National Consumers League (NCL), developed a "white label" for stores that met the organization's standards for minimum wages and decent working hours.[183]

Legal reform[edit]

Women's clubs helped establish juvenile courts. The first juvenile court was established in Chicago in 1899 through the urging of the Chicago Woman's Club whose members felt that children should not be treated as adults by the court.[184] Clubwomen from the Chicago Woman's Club went to court with many of the children in order to ensure they were being treated fairly.[182] The Chicago Woman's Club also established a Protective Agency for Women and Children in 1886.[185][186]

Juvenile law in Chicago also recognized children who were without legal guardians and who should be dependent on the state.[184] By 1906, there were juvenile courts in twenty-five states.[187] These courts were praised by contemporaries, like Mrs. John Dickinson Sherman, who wrote in 1906 of the establishment of the juvenile courts, "If the whole club movement of the six states in the last ten years had accomplished nothing else it would still be well worth while."[188] Woman's clubs helped pass Juvenile court laws in Ohio, Missouri,[93] and in Los Angeles.[137]

Women's clubs helped work towards marriage reforms which would benefit women. An act passed on March 2, 1907, called the Expatriation Act, required that when a woman married, she took on the citizenship of her husband.[189] For women to attain a civic or legal identity, such as the right to vote, they needed to have independence from their husbands' citizenship.[190][189] Marriage laws in 1921 still had separate standards for married women's citizenship status depending on her state of residence.[190] Finally, in 1922, the United States Congress passed the Married Women's Act, granting married women their own nationality in the United States.[189] In 1936, Congress created a provision for women who had lost their citizenship due to marriage, and were no longer married, to re-swear allegiance to the United States.[191][192]

Women's clubs also looked at issues of consent. The Chicago Woman's Club, which created the Protective Agency for Women and Children, presented bills to the legislature which later passed. One raised the age of consent from fourteen to eighteen.[93] Women's clubs helped assert the right of women to refuse to have sex with their husbands if they chose.[159]

Prison reform[edit]

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) of Washington state was involved in urging the city of Spokane to hire a female jail matron for women prisoners in 1902.[153] Elizabeth Gurley Flynn helped expose sexual abuse of women prisoners in the jails during the Free Speech Movement of 1909, and helped to push the city to finally install a female jail matron in Spokane.[153] The Chicago Woman's Club advocated for a female jail matron in 1884.[193] In Los Angeles, clubwomen were able to influence the city to appoint female police officers.[137]

Fashion[edit]

See also: Dress reform

Women's clubs were also interested in reforming fashion. Some reform centered around corsets and how tight clothing was starting to be considered unhealthy.[194] Women's clubs also spoke out against the use of bird feathers in women's fashion.[195]

Besides reform, women's clubs also used fashion as a way to showcase creative arts. Fashion shows put on by the CNDA in the 1930s and 1940s featured recitals of music and dance, which were held at the Savoy Ballroom.[135]

Suffrage[edit]

See also: Women's suffrage in the United States
National American Women Suffrage, St. Louis, March 25, 1919

Women's clubs became very active in women's suffrage. Before women had the right to vote, women's clubs needed to partner with sympathetic organizations run by men.[196] The focus on women's suffrage began during the last half of the nineteenth century. In 1868, Kate Newell Doggett, a botanist, helped set up a chapter of Sorosis, which became the first women's group in Chicago to focus on suffrage.[197] Later, the Chicago Woman's Club would help promote suffrage.[198]

Other organizations, dedicated especially to suffrage began to be formed after the Civil War.[199] As women's clubs grew, so did suffrage organizations.[199]

African-American women's clubs like the NACW not only fought for women's suffrage, but also for the right of black men to vote.[70] Many black women were involved in groups like the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).[200] Women involved in the National Baptist Woman's Convention also supported suffrage.[200]

Women's clubs hosted talks about suffrage[201] and invited suffrage leaders to speak.[202] After women won the right to vote, women's clubs continued in helping women exercise their rights and how to best use their votes.[96] However, another factor in earning the right to vote was a decline in membership until the Great Depression, when women got together again for charitable work.[23]

Temperance[edit]

Main article: Temperance movement in the United States

Women's clubs such as the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) were involved with advocating the prohibition of alcohol.[153] The Florida Federation of Women's Clubs (FFWC) also supported temperance in that state.[86] Numerous women involved with the temperance movement felt that limiting alcohol access would decrease "social ills" such as gambling, prostitution and domestic violence.[10] Many women involved in the temperance movement felt that securing women's right to vote would help promote prohibition of alcohol.[203] Both black and white temperance groups promoted women's suffrage.[204]

Notable clubs[edit]

Main article: List of women's clubs
Delegates representing South Carolina women's clubs in Detroit in 1958
  • Alpha Suffrage Club
  • Association of Collegiate Alumnae
  • Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching
  • Atlanta Neighborhood Union
  • Charlotte Woman's Club
  • Chicago Woman's Club
  • Colorado Federation of Women's Clubs
  • Colored Female Religious and Moral Society
  • Daughters of the American Revolution
  • Ebell of Los Angeles
  • Francisca Club
  • Frederick Douglass Woman's Club
  • General Federation of Women's Clubs
  • Houston Heights Woman's Club
  • Indiana State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
  • League of Women Voters
  • Mississippi State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
  • Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
  • National Association of Colored Women (NACW)
  • National Council of Jewish Women
  • New England Women's Club
  • Phillis Wheatley Club
  • San Pedro Woman's Club
  • Sorosis
  • South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (SCRCWC)
  • Texas Association of Women's Clubs
  • Texas Federation of Women's Clubs
  • Women's Christian Temperance Union
  • Women's Club of El Paso
  • Women's City Club of New York (WCC)
  • Woman's Health Protective Association
  • Women's Joint Congressional Committee
  • Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)

See also[edit]

  • List of women's clubs
  • Gentlemen's clubs
  • Women-only space
  • Woman's Christian Temperance Union
  • Membership discrimination in California social clubs
  • History of antisemitism in the United States
  • Racial segregation in the United States

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Further reading[edit]

  • Anne Ruggles Gere. Intimate Practices: Literacy and Cultural Work in U.S. Women's Clubs, 1880-1920. University of Chicago Press, 1997.
  • Augusta H. Leypoldt (1895), List of books for girls and women and their clubs, Boston: Library Bureau, OL 7206948M
  • Jayne Morris-Crowther, The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2013.

External links[edit]

  • Lifting as We Climb: African American Women's Clubs in Progressive Era Chicago
  • GFWC (official site)
  • For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1899–1920 in the Digital Library of Georgia
  • [1]Finding Aids, Research Center, Special Collections, Washington State Historical Society
  • [2]Women's Clubs Collection, 1812–1995 Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
  • Margaret Fuller Club Collection, McLean County Museum of History