Background
Muncy, Robyn Leigh was born on November 5, 1956 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Robert L. and Barbara Ann (Barbour) Muncy.
(In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, mid...)
In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that attempted to control child welfare policy. Within this policymaking body, female progressives professionalized their values, bureaucratized their methods, and institutionalized their reforming networks. To refer to the organizational structure embodying these processes, the book develops the original concept of a female dominion in the otherwise male empire of policymaking. At the head of this dominion stood the Children's Bureau in the federal Department of Labor. Muncy investigates the development of the dominion and its particular characteristics, such as its monopoly over child welfare and its commitment to public welfare, and shows how it was dependent on a peculiarly female professionalism. By exploring that process, this book illuminates the relationship between professionalization and reform, the origins and meaning of Progressive reform, and the role of gender in creating the American welfare state.
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(This is the first and only documentary history of gender ...)
This is the first and only documentary history of gender in the US. The documents, both written and visual, illustrate the variety of ways that Americans defined manhood and womanhood at any one time (since 1865) and the ways those definitions have changed over time. The book demonstrates the interconnections between the histories of gender and sexuality, and it introduces students to the use of primary sources in history.
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Muncy, Robyn Leigh was born on November 5, 1956 in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Robert L. and Barbara Ann (Barbour) Muncy.
Bachelor, Lindenwood College, 1977. Master of Arts, University Idaho, 1980. Doctor of Philosophy, Northwestern University, 1987.
Assistant professor, Le Moyne College College, Syracuse, New York, 1987-1990;
assistant professor, U. Maryland., College Park, 1990-1993;
associate professor of history, U. Maryland., College Park, since 1993. Visiting associate professor of University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1994. Consultant American Memory project Library. of Congress, 1992-1993, League of Women Voters, Washington, 1993-1994, National Archives, Washington, 1995, National Coord.
Committee for Promotion of History, Washington, 1991-1993.
(In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, mid...)
(This is the first and only documentary history of gender ...)
Precinct captain Chicago Democratic Party, 1983-1987. Voter registrar City of Chicago, 1983-1987. Member National Organization for Women, Organisation American Historians, American History Association, Continuing Committee on Women Historians, Women's Political Caucus.
Married Richard Champagne, May 22, 1977 (divorced January 1982). Married Tony Speranza, August 12, 1995. 1 child, Teresa Frances.