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Jane Addams's early attempt to empower the people with information
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2007-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0252031342
Jane Addams's early attempt to empower the people with information
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Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Prefatory note / by Jane Addams -- Map notes and comments / by Agnes Sinclair Holbrook -- The sweating-system / by Florence Kelley -- Wage-earning children / by Florence Kelley and Alzina P. Stevens -- Receipts and expenditures of cloakmakers in Chicago / by Isabel Eaton -- The Chicago ghetto / by Charles Zeublin -- The Bohemian people in Chicago / by Josefa Humpal Zeman -- Remarks upon the Italian colony in Chicago / by Alessandro Mastro-Valerio -- The Cook county charities / by Julia C. Lathrop -- Art and labor / by Ellen Gates Starr -- The settlement as a factor in the labor movement / by Jane Addams -- Appendix -- Hull-House: a social settlement.
Author : Shannon Jackson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 33,31 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472087914
Applies the interdisciplinary insights of performance studies to the life of Chicago's Hull-House settlement
Author : Graham Cassano
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9004384057
In Eleanor Smith’s Hull House Songs: The Music of Protest and Hope in Jane Addams’s Chicago, the authors republish Hull House Songs (1916), together with critical commentary. Hull-House Songs contains five politically engaged compositions written by the Hull-House music educator, Eleanor Smith. The commentary that accompanies the folio includes an examination of Smith’s poetic sources and musical influences; a study of Jane Addams’s aesthetic theories; and a complete history of the arts at Hull-House. Through this focus upon aesthetic and cultural programs at Hull-House, the authors identify the external, and internalized, forces of domination (class position, racial identity, patriarchal disenfranchisement) that limited the work of the Hull-House women, while also recovering the sometimes hidden emancipatory possibilities of their legacy. With an afterword by Jocelyn Zelasko.
Author : William Thomas Stead
Publisher : Chicago : Laird & Lee
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,98 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
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Author : Louise W. Knight
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226447014
Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was—a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings—and describes how Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader. “Knight’s decision to focus on Addams’s early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight’s book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood.”—Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review “My only complaint about the book is that there wasn’t more of it. . . . Knight honors Addams as an American original.”—Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune
Author : Mary Lynn McCree Bryan
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Mary Jo Deegan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351511149
Jane Addams is well known for her leadership in urban reform, social settlements, pacifism, social work, and women's suffrage.The men of the Chicago School are well known for their leadership in founding sociology and the study of urban life.What has remained hidden however, is that Jane Addams played a pivotal role in the development of sociology and worked closely with the male faculty at the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago. By using extensive archival material, Mary Jo Deegan is the first to document Addams's sociological significance and the existence of a sexual division of labor during the founding years of the discipline. As the leader of the women's network, Addams was able to bridge these two spheres of work and knowledge.Through an analysis of the changing relations between the male and female networks, Deegan shows that the Chicago men varied widely in their understanding and acceptance of her sociological though and action.Despite this variation, it was through her work with the men of the Chicago School that Addams left a legacy for sociology as a way of thinking, an area of study, and a methodological approach to data collecting. This previously unexamined heritage of American sociology will be of value to anyone interested in the history of the social sciences, especially sociology and social work, the development of American social thought, the role of professional women, the Progressive Era, and the intellectual contributions of Jane Addams.
Author : Katherine Joslin
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252029233
Jane Addams is best known for her groundbreaking social reforming and her work at Hull House. This book takes an expansive look at her creative writing and other areas of her life.
Author : Sandra B. Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780252067600
This collection provides a thorough grounding in the philosophy of American pragmatism by examining the views of four principal thinkers--Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and George Herbert Mead--on issues of central and enduring importance to life in human society. Pragmatism emerged as a characteristically American response to an inheritance of British empiricism. Presenting a radical reconception of the nature of experience, pragmatism represents a belief that ideas are not merely to be contemplated but must be put into action, tested and refined through experience. At the same time, the American pragmatists argued for an emphasis on human community that would offset the deep-seated American bias in favor of individualism. Far from being a relic of the past, pragmatism offers a dynamic and substantive approach to questions of human conduct, social values, scientific inquiry, religious belief, and aesthetic experience that lie at the center of contemporary life. This volume is an invaluable introduction to a school of thought that remains vital, instructive, and provocative.