Endnotes
1. See Leila
J. Rupp and Verta Taylor, Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's
Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s (New York: Oxford University Press,
1987), pp. 48-49. See also Sara Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of
Women in America (New York: Free Press, 1989 & 1997), pp. 232, 277;
Cynthia Harrison, On Account of Sex: The Politics of Women's Issues,
1945-1968 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), p. 8.
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2. One example
of this protective legislation is the case of Muller v. Oregon (1908),
which upheld a 10-hour limit on women's workday length in Oregon. See
Nancy Woloch, Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents (Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), pp. 52-61.
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3. Jan Beran, The
League of Women Voters of Iowa: A Voice for Citizens, A Force for Change
(Des Moines, Iowa: League of Women Voters of Iowa, 1997), p. 5.
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4. Rupp, Survival
in the Doldrums, p. 48; Evans, Born For Liberty, pp. 232, 277.
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5. Adelyn Kimball
Hunt, "Address to the Iowa League of Women Voters, Sioux City, April
18, 1943," Folder: Legislation, League Reports, Roll Calls, Etc., Box
20, League of Women Voters of Iowa Papers, Iowa Women's Archives, University
of Iowa Libraries.
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6. Folder: State
Numbers, Membership League of Women Voters of Iowa Papers, Box 47, Iowa Women's
Archives, University of Iowa Libraries.
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7. Statistical
Abstract of the United States: 1955. Vol. 77 (Washington, DC: United
States Printing Office, 1956), pp. 20, 42, 45, 131, 225.
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8. League
of Women Voters' 1955 Program, Folder: Publications--National Broadsides,
Box 48, League of Women Voters of Iowa Papers, Iowa Women's Archives,
University of Iowa Libraries.
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9. Rupp, Survival
in the Doldrums, pp 6-7 and Susan Lynn, "Gender and Progressive Politics:
A Bridge to Social Activism of the 1960s," in Not June Cleaver: Women
and Gender in Postwar America, 1945-1960, Joanne Meyerowitz, ed. (Philadelphia:
Temple University Press, 1994), pp 103-27
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10. Congressional
Digest, 22 (1943), pp.
99-128.
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