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Addams, Jane - 1860–1935, American social worker, b. Cedarville, Ill., grad. Rockford College, 1881. In 1889, with Ellen Gates Starr, she founded Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in the United States (see settlement house). Based on the university settlements begun in England by Samuel Barnett, Hull House served as a community center for the neighborhood poor and

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Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life » Read Now
by Jean Bethke Elshtain. 327 pgs.

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In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of "social feminism, " her challenge to the usual cleavage between...
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In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of "social feminism, " her challenge to the usual cleavage between "conservative" and "liberal, " and the growth of Chicago's famed Hull House into a thriving cultural and intellectual center. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy is a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most extraordinary figures in American history.
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Jane Addams: A Centennial Reader » Read Now
by Jane Addams. 330 pgs.

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...Jane Addams A CENTENNIAL READER THE MACMILLAN COMPANY...CANADA BRETT-MACMILLAN LTD. GALT, ONTARIO Jane Addams A CENTENNIAL READER New York The Macmillan...copyright 1907...
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Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes » Read Now
by Jane Addams. 470 pgs.

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...MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO JANE ADDAMS. TWENTY YEARS AT HULL-HOUSE...AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOTES BY JANE ADDAMS HULL-HOUSE, CHICAGO AUTHOR OF...and Theater 426...
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The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets » Read Now
by Jane Addams. 168 pgs.

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...CALCUTTCA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH AND THE CITY STREETS By JANE ADDAMS HULL HOUSE, CHICAGO Author of Democracy and Social...
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Peace and Bread in Time of War » Read Now
by Jane Addams. 257 pgs.

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A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil » Read Now
by Jane Addams. 219 pgs.

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...BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO A NEW CONSCIENCE AND AN ANCIENT EVIL By JANE ADDAMS HULL HOUSE, CHICAGO Author of Democracy and Social...
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Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society ("Jane Addams and the Settlement House Movement" begins on p. 85) » Read Now
by Paul A. Cimbala, Randall M. Miller. 172 pgs.

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Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early...
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Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early republic to today. The volume combines scholarly vitality with readability, making it appropriate for all levels of students.
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Creating the American State: The Moral Reformers and the Modern Administrative World They Made (Chap. 5 "Jane Addams: The Call from the Inner Light for Social Reform") » Read Now
by Richard J. Stillman II. 212 pgs.

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...for Public Professionalism 63 5. Jane Addams: The Call from the Inner Light for Social Reform...witness the life and work of a remarkable woman, Jane Addams 1860- 1935 ...
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Men, Women, and Issues in American History, Vol. II (Chap. 8 "Variations on the Progressive Theme: Jane Addams, Robert M. La Follette, Theodore Roosevelt") » Read Now
by Howard H. Quint, Milton Cantor. 302 pgs.

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...Limited Georgetown, Ontario L7G 4B3 Shown on the cover are Jane Addams, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Emily James...Sandra Mailho, Susan West, Barbara Einfurer...
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Women Public Speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: A Bio-critical Sourcebook ("Jane Addams (1860-1935), Champion of the Poor, Advocate for Peace, Suffragist" begins on p. 1) » Read Now
by Karlyn Kohrs Campbell. 512 pgs.

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This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them. Following Campbell's introductory chapter, the volume provides extensive entries on 37 key orators. Subjects include suffragists, the first...
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This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them. Following Campbell's introductory chapter, the volume provides extensive entries on 37 key orators. Subjects include suffragists, the first lawyers, ministers, physicians, labor organizers, newspaper editors and publishers, historians, educators, even soldiers. Each entry provides brief biographical information, then focuses on the woman's public life in discourse. Each entry includes an analysis of the subject's rhetoric and information on primary sources, critical works, key rhetorical documents, and selected sources of historical and biographical information. The work is fully indexed.
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Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935 (Chap. 1 "Origins of the Dominion: Hull House, 1890-1910") » Read Now
by Robyn Muncy. 217 pgs.

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In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that attempted to control child welfare policy...
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In this book, Muncy explains the continuity of white, middle-class, American female reform activity between the Progressive era and the New Deal. She argues that during the Progressive era, female reformers built an interlocking set of organizations that attempted to control child welfare policy. Within this policymaking body, female progressives professionalized their values, bureaucratized their methods, and institutionalized their reforming networks. To refer to the organizational structure embodying these processes, the book develops the original concept of a female dominion in the otherwise male empire of policymaking. At the head of this dominion stood the Children's Bureau in the federal Department of Labor. Muncy investigates the development of the dominion and its particular characteristics, such as its monopoly over child welfare and its commitment to public welfare, and shows how it was dependent on a peculiarly female professionalism. By exploring that process, this book illuminates the relationship between professionalization and reform, the origins and meaning of Progressive reform, and the role of gender in creating the American welfare state.
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From the Small Town to the Great Community: The Social Thought of Progressive Intellectuals (Chap. 7 "Jane Addams and the Division of Labor") » Read Now
by Jean B. Quandt. 261 pgs.

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...Community 79 7. Jane Addams and the Division of Labor 86...a writer and urban reformer; Jane Addams, the founder of the Hull House...called forth a quick response. 16 Jane...
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The Intellectual versus the City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank Lloyd Wright (Chap. 9 "Pragmatism and Social Work: William James and Jane Addams") » Read Now
by Morton White, Lucia White. 276 pgs.

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...the Gilded Age; by Howells, Dreiser, and Norris, spokesmen of literary realism and naturalism; by John Dewey and Jane Addams in what Richard Hofstadter calls "The Age of...
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Meditations on Modern Political Thought: Masculine/Feminine Themes from Luther to Arendt (Chap. 6 "Self/Other, Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams") » Read Now
by Jean Bethke Elshtain. 134 pgs.

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...Citizen/State: G. W. F. Hegel and Jane Addams 71 Chapter 7 Freud...Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Jane Addams, for example. Others are drawn...Chapter 4. I pair Hegel and Jane...
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Black Neighbors: Race and the Limits of Reform in the American Settlement House Movement, 1890-1945 (Discussion of Jane Addams begins on p. 1) » Read Now
by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn. 225 pgs.

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...prominent Progressive Era reformer Jane Addams remarked that, everywhere in...eventually out of the city. 3 Jane Addams, who founded the renowned Hull...broached the...
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Jane Addams and the Social Claim, in Public Interest » Read Now
by Jean Bethke Elshtain. 11 pgs.

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