Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy / Louise W. Knight.
Knight, Louise W.
2005
HV40.32.A33 K59 2005 (Mapit)
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Title Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy / Louise W. Knight.
Author Knight, Louise W.
ISBN 0226446999 (alk. paper)
9780226446998 (alk. paper)
Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005.
Language English
Description xvi, 582 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HV40.32.A33 K59 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 361.92 B
Summary Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This biography, covering the first half of Addams's life, reveals in detail her development as a political activist and social philosopher--we observe the powerful mind of a woman encountering the radical ideas of her age. Addams, a child of a wealthy family, longed for a life of larger purpose. After receiving an inheritance, she moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house--a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings As 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, she was transformed: she came to understand that the national ideal of democracy was also a mandate for civic activism.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-564) and index.
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Part I: The given life, 1860-88. Self-reliance, 1822-60
Three mothers, 1860-73
Dreams, 1873-77
Ambition, 1877-81
Failure, 1881-83
Culture, 1883-86
Crisis, 1886-88
Part II: The chosen life, 1889-99. Chicago, 1889
Halsted Street, 1889-91
Fellowship, 1892
Baptism, 1893
Cooperation, 1893-94
Claims, 1894
Justice, 1895
Democracy, 1896-98
Ethics, 1898-99
Afterword: scholarship and Jane Addams.

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