The entry of the United States into the First World War and the integration of women into mobilization expanded women-run private initiatives and integrated their associational efforts into the war effort. This created greater visibility of women and children to state and federal governments. In the end, however, the increased attention and mobilization of private organizations by the state around women’s issues was fleeting. The alacrity with which North Carolina dispensed with these mechanisms for mobilization is an example of their purpose as associational measures to manage the dynamics of wartime and maintain pre-war hierarchies of power. Throughout the war, the bifurcation of work based on gender and the unfixed status of women created a situation in which their participation required constant negotiation. The need to negotiate participation in the mobilization was itself an outgrowth of the conflicted relationship between American government and civil society over women’s issues. After the war, these issues again became the purview of private organizations and other systems of extra-governmental governance that leveraged a more associational relationship with federal and state governments.

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“建立一个伟大的战争组织”：1917 年至 1919 年北卡罗来纳州的联合国家和妇女战争工作

美国加入第一次世界大战和妇女参与动员扩大了妇女经营的私人倡议，并将她们的协会努力纳入战争努力。这提高了妇女和儿童在州和联邦政府中的知名度。然而，最终，国家对私人组织对妇女问题的更多关注和动员只是昙花一现。北卡罗来纳州迅速放弃这些动员机制的一个例子是，它们作为联合措施来管理战时动态和维持战前权力等级制度的目的。在整个战争期间，基于性别的工作分歧和妇女的不固定地位造成了一种情况，在这种情况下，她们的参与需要不断的谈判。谈判参与动员的需要本身就是美国政府和公民社会之间在妇女问题上的冲突关系的产物。战后，这些问题再次成为私人组织和其他政府外治理系统的权限范围，这些系统利用与联邦和州政府的更多关联关系。