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Overview
Jane Addams was a prolific and elegant writer. Her twelve books consist largely of published essays, but to appreciate her life work one must also read her previously uncollected speeches and editorials. This artfully compiled collection begins with Addams's youthful Junior Class Oration on women as "Breadgivers," features thoughtful examinations of topics as diverse as "Tolstoy and Gandhi" and "The Public School and the Immigrant Child," and even includes popular essays on "The Subtle Problems of Charity," from The Atlantic Monthly, and "Need a Woman Over Fifty Feel Old?" from Ladies' Home Journal. Along with the writings themselves, Elshtain's insightful commentary offers powerful evidence of Addams's remarkable ability to frame social problems in an ethical context, her unwillingness to succumb to ideological dogma, her political courage, and her lifelong devotion to civic and moral life.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780465019151 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Basic Books |
| Publication date: | 12/20/2001 |
| Pages: | 528 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at The University of Chicago. She is the author of over four hundred essays in scholarly journals and journals of civic opinion, and some one hundred and seventy five book reviews, and was a contributing editor at the New Republic.
Among her books are Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (Basic, 2001), Just War Against Terror (Basic, 2003) and Democracy on Trial (Basic, 1995). She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois.
Among her books are Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (Basic, 2001), Just War Against Terror (Basic, 2003) and Democracy on Trial (Basic, 1995). She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | xi | |
| Permissions | xiii | |
| Chronology of the Life of Jane Addams | xv | |
| Hull-House Firsts | xix | |
| A Return to Hull-House: Taking the Measure of an Extroardinary Life | xxi | |
| Part 1 | Introduction: "The Snare of Preparation" and the Creation of a Vocation | 1 |
| 1 | "The Macbeth of Shakespeare" | 5 |
| 2 | "Bread Givers" | 8 |
| 3 | "Cassandra" | 10 |
| 4 | "The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements" | 14 |
| 5 | "The Objective Value of a Social Settlement" | 29 |
| 6 | "The Settlement as a Factor in the Labor Movement" | 46 |
| 7 | "The Subtle Problems of Charity" | 62 |
| 8 | "Filial Relations" | 76 |
| 9 | "The Influence of Lincoln" | 88 |
| 10 | "The Snare of Preparation" | 100 |
| Part 2 | Introduction: Justice and Amelioration--Finding Democracy's Middle Way | 114 |
| 11 | "Why the Ward Boss Rules" | 118 |
| 12 | "The Wrecked Foundations of Domesticity" | 125 |
| 13 | "The Thirst for Righteousness" | 136 |
| 14 | "Survivals of Militarism in City Government" | 147 |
| 15 | "A Modern Lear" | 163 |
| 16 | "Moral Education and Legal Protection of Children" | 177 |
| 17 | "Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions" | 196 |
| 18 | "The Chicago Settlements and Social Unrest" | 205 |
| 19 | "The Home and the Special Child" | 224 |
| 20 | "If Men Were Seeking the Franchise" | 229 |
| 21 | "The Public School and the Immigrant Child" | 235 |
| 22 | "Americanization" | 240 |
| Part 3 | Introduction: "Woman's Remembering Heart": Bread-Giving, Peace-Making, and Sympathy as Political Forces | 248 |
| 23 | "Women's Conscience and Social Amelioration" | 252 |
| 24 | "The Sheltered Woman and the Magdalen" | 264 |
| 25 | "Introduction" (from The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House) | 270 |
| 26 | "Aspects of the Woman's Movement" | 275 |
| 27 | "Contrasts in Post-War Generation" | 294 |
| 28 | "A Review of Bread Rations and Woman's Traditions" | 307 |
| 29 | "Personal Reactions in Time of War" | 316 |
| 30 | "Address of Miss Addams at Carnegie Hall" (The Revolt Against War) | 327 |
| 31 | "Women's Memories--Challenging War" | 341 |
| 32 | "Patriotism and Pacifists in Wartime" | 352 |
| 33 | "Friendship with Florence Kelley--National Conference on Social Work" | 365 |
| Part 4 | Introduction: Culture, Character, and the Power of Memory | 376 |
| 34 | "Pen and Book as Tests of Character" | 379 |
| 35 | "Women's Memories--Transmuting the Past, as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby" | 382 |
| 36 | "Women's Memories--Reaction on Life, as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby" | 392 |
| 37 | "A Personal Experience in Interpreting Memory" | 404 |
| 38 | "The Play Instinct and the Arts" | 416 |
| 39 | "Need a Woman over Fifty Feel Old?" | 432 |
| 40 | "Tolstoy and Gandhi" | 436 |
| 41 | "Our National Self-Righteousness" | 442 |
| Bibliography of the Printed Works of Jane Addams | 449 | |
| Index | 475 |
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