| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.5

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Canada and the United States

Eric Rauchway. The Refuge of Affections: Family and American Reform Politics, 1900–1920. (Columbia Studies in Contemporary American History.) New York: Columbia University Press. 2001. Pp. xii, 237. Cloth $49.50, paper $22.50.

Progressivism has long been the subject of intense interest and controversy among historians, as have the motives of reformers defined as Progressives. In this new book, Eric Rauchway seeks to take this debate further and lead it in a new direction. Drawing on, but taking issue with, recent scholarship that argues for the importance of gender in shaping Progressive reform, Rauchway claims instead that Progressive ideas of the family, and the men, women, and children within it, are central to an understanding of Progressivism. By looking at Progressive married couples, Rauchway aims to challenge what he sees as too great an emphasis on gendered reform, objecting to the idea that gender dictated male and female reformers' identities or their political activism. . . .

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