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Feeling and the State in Women’s Reform - Elizabeth Garner Masarik. The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2024. ix + 236 pp. $114.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780820366067, $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780820366050.

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Elizabeth Garner Masarik. The Sentimental State: How Women-Led Reform Built the American Welfare State. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2024. ix + 236 pp. $114.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780820366067, $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9780820366050.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2025

Abby Trollinger*
Affiliation:
St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI, USA

Abstract

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE)

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Notes

1 Muncy, Robyn, Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890–1935 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Mink, Gwendolyn, The Wages of Motherhood: Inequality in the Welfare State, 1917–1942 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995).Google Scholar

2 Katz, Michael B., In the Shadow of the Poorhouse: A Social History of Welfare in America (New York: Basic Books, 1986), x.Google Scholar