Jayne Morris-Crowther. The Political Activities of Detroit Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise.

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A book review discusses Jayne Morris-Crowther's The Political Activities of Detroit's Clubwomen in the 1920s: A Challenge and a Promise, which examines Detroit clubwomen's successes and failures in municipal politics. The book explores the impact of the woman suffrage amendment on key political issues including school reform, community gardens and playgrounds, women as political officeholders, penal reform, crime and public vice, and segregation in public accommodations. The review highlights the book's conclusion that despite redoubled activism, votes and organizing by middle-class clubwomen did not produce as much institutional change as they had envisioned after passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as the prevalent belief that women were unfit for political office added to widespread sexism in the legislature and women's issues were not taken seriously.