Endless Crusade : women social scientists and progressive reform / Ellen Fitzpatrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fitzpatrick, Ellen F. (Ellen Frances), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women social reformers--United States--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Women social scientists--United States--Biography.

Women social scientists.

Progressivism (United States politics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv,271p.,[12]p. of plates.)

Edition:

1st Oxford University pbk. ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Through an examination of the careers of the first four women in the USA to be trained as social scientists, this study examines the impact of late 19th-century social science on reform and finds that the research universities were important intellectual determinants of the welfare state.

This book examines the lives and careers of four American women--Sophonisba Breckinridge, Edith Abbott, Katharine Bement Davis, and Frances Kellor--who played decisive roles in early twentieth-century reform crusades. Breckinridge and Abbott used their educations in political science and political economy to expose the tragic conditions endured by the urban poor. Davis became the first superintendent of the New York State Reformatory at Bedford Hills and was a leading figure in prison reform. Kellor's sociological training gained her admittance to the smoke-filled rooms of national party politics and eventually to a high-ranking position in the Progressive Party. In Endless Crusade, Fitzpatrick follows these four women from their collective experience as University of Chicago graduate students at the turn of the century to their extraordinary careers as early-twentieth-century social activists, exploring the impact of their academic training and their experiences as professional women on issues ranging from prison reform to Progressive Party politics. Fitzpatrick examines how each woman struggled, in various settings, to promote effective social reform. Their shared commitment to social knowledge and social change, she shows, helped to shape the character of early-twentieth-century reform.

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-257).

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-771277-0

0-19-802271-9

1-280-44296-4

1-4237-3890-X

0-19-535848-1

1-60129-973-7

OCLC:

475956049