The Women of Hull House
Title | The Women of Hull House PDF eBook |
Author | Eleanor J. Stebner |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791434871 |
This group biography explores the lives, work, and personal relations of nine white, middle- and upper-middle-class women who were involved in the first decade of Chicago's premier social settlement. This "galaxy of stars"--as they were called in their own day--were active in innumerable political, social, and religious reform efforts. The Women of Hull House refutes the humanistic interpretation of the social settlement movement. Its spiritual base is highlighted as the author describes it as the practical/ethical side of the social gospel movement and as an attempt to transform late nineteenth-century evangelical and doctrinal Christian religion. While the women of Hull House differed from one another in their theological beliefs and were often critical of orthodox Christianity, they were motivated by Christian ideals. By showing the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship, the author argues that individual actions for social changes must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints.
The Jane Addams Papers
Title | The Jane Addams Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Lynn McCree Bryan |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Hull-House Maps and Papers
Title | Hull-House Maps and Papers PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 2007-01-15 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0252031342 |
Jane Addams's early attempt to empower the people with information
Twenty Years at Hull House
Title | Twenty Years at Hull House PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Addams |
Publisher | MacMillan |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
In 1889, while many Americans were disdainful of newly arrived immigrants, Jane Addams established Hull-House as a refuge for Chicago's poor. The settlement house provided an unprecedented variety of social services. In this inspiring autobiography, Addams chronicles the institution's early years and discusses the ever-relevant philosophy of social justice that served as its foundation.
Pluralism and Progressives
Title | Pluralism and Progressives PDF eBook |
Author | Rivka Shpak Lissak |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1989-11-09 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 9780226485027 |
The settlement house movement, launched at the end of the nineteenth century by men and women of the upper middle class, began as an attempt to understand and improve the social conditions of the working class. It gradually came to focus on the "new immigrants"—mainly Italians, Slavs, Greeks, and Jews—who figured so prominently in this changing working class. Hull House, one of the first and best-known settlement houses in the United States, was founded in September 1889 on Chicago's West Side by Jane Addams and Ellen G. Starr. In a major new study of this famous institution and its place in the movement, Rivka Shpak Lissak reassesses the impact of Hull House on the nationwide debate over the place of immigrants in American society.
Six Remarkable Hull-House Women
Title | Six Remarkable Hull-House Women PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Bobick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Social settlements |
ISBN | 9781942155102 |
Six remarkable women's struggle for social justice, from the Progressive Period to the New Deal
For the Freedom of Her Race
Title | For the Freedom of Her Race PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa G. Materson |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807832715 |
Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932_a period that is often described as the nadir of black life in Ame