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Elizabeth J. Clapp. Mothers of All Children: Women Reformers and the Rise of Juvenile Courts in Progressive-Era America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1998. Pp. ix, 214. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.95.

Elizabeth J. Clapp opens the first chapter of this book by describing the initial 1899 session of Chicago's pioneering Juvenile Court. Seated next to Judge Richard Tuthill are several women who are advising him. It is a wonderfully appropriate image, for it perfectly captures Clapp's intent and major argument. Inspired by a steadily increasing body of historical scholarship asserting that women were prime movers in the early twentieth-century creation of the welfare state, Clapp has set out to assign them an equally critical role in the contemporaneous creation of the U.S. juvenile justice system. In short, she has set out to give women a place at the table (there were no judges' benches in the specially designed juvenile courts) alongside those to whom historians have traditionally given the lion's share of credit for the juvenile court: male reformers like Hastings Hart and Homer Folks and male judges like Tuthill, Harvey Baker of Boston, George Stubbs of Indianapolis, and, especially, Ben Lindsey of Denver. . . .

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