Jane Addams and the practice of democracy / edited by Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff, and Wendy Chmielewski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fischer, Marilyn.

Nackenoff, Carol.

Chmielewski, Wendy E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935--Congresses.

Addams, Jane.

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.

Women social workers--United States--Biography--Congresses.

Women social workers.

Women social reformers--United States--Biography--Congresses.

Women social reformers.

Democracy--Congresses.

Democracy.

Civil society--Congresses.

Civil society.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

viii, 230 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]

Summary:

Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. This volume demonstrates how scholars continue to interpret Addams as a model for transcending disciplinary boundaries, generating theory out of concrete experience, and keeping theory and practice in close and fruitful dialogue.

Contents:

Section I Addams’s Experimental Method

1 The Sermon of the Deed: Jane Addams’s Spiritual Evolution / Victoria Bissell Brown 21

2 The Courage of one’s Convictions or the Conviction of one’s Courage? Jane Addams’s Principled Compromises / Charlene Haddock Seigfried 40

Section II Jane Addams and the Practice of Democratic Citizenship

3 Jane Addams’s Theory of Cooperation / Louise W. Knight 65

4 A Civic Machinery for Democratic Expression: Jane Addams on Public Administration / Camilla Stivers 87

5 "The Transfigured Few": Jane Addams, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman, and Immigrant Women Workers in Chicago, 1905-15 / Karen Pastorello 98

6 New Politics for New Selves: Jane Addams’s Legacy for Democratic Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century / Carol Nackenoff 119

7 Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane Addams / Shannon Jackson 143

Section III Democratic Cosmopolitanism and Peace

8 The Conceptual Scaffolding of Newer Ideals of Peace / Marilyn Fischer 165

9 A Global "Common Table": Jane Addams’s Theory of Democratic Cosmopolitanism and World Social Citizenship / Wendy Sarvasy 183

10 Can Jane Addams Serve as a Role Model for Us Today? / Harriet Hyman Alonso 203.

Notes:

Chapters based on presentations at two conferences held in 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252034066

9780252034060

0252076125

9780252076121

OCLC:

242559863