Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

AvMaurice Hamington,Metropolitain State College of Denver) Hamington, Maurice (Executive Director, Professor of Philosophy

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Although Jane Addams’s Twenty Years at Hull-House is considered an American classic, her dozen books and hundreds of published articles have sometimes been thought of as quaint examples of an overly optimistic era. Beginning in the 1990s, feminist scholars rediscovered the vitality of Addams’s social philosophy and challenged the marginalization of her ideas. Today, following a war-laden twentieth century and the failure of militarism and “get tough” approaches to solve domestic and global problems, Addams’s social theorizing, which emphasizes cosmopolitan experiences and sympathetic connections, provides a provocative alternative to Western notions of individualism, transactional relations, and spectator epistemology. Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams brings together many of the leading Addams scholars in North America to consider Addams’s ongoing relevance to feminist thought.Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Bissell Brown, Marilyn Fischer, Judith M. Green, Shannon Jackson, Katherine Joslin, Louise W. Knight, L. Ryan Musgrave Bonomo, Wendy Sarvasy, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Eleanor J. Stebner, and Judy D. Whipps.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-09-15
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt567 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRe-Reading the Canon
Antal sidor352
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271036946

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ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: Culture and Art1.Reading Jane Addams in the Twenty-first CenturyKatherine Joslin2.Cultural Contradictions: Jane Addams’s Struggles with the Life of Art and the Art of LifeCharlene Haddock Seigfried3.Trojan Women and Devil Baby Tales: Addams on Domestic ViolenceMarilyn Fischer4.Addams’s Philosophy of Art: Feminist Aesthetics and Moral Imagination at Hull HouseL. Ryan Musgrave BonomoPart 2: Sex and Society5.Sex and the City: Jane Addams Confronts ProstitutionVictoria Bissell Brown6.Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane AddamsShannon Jackson7.Love on Halsted Street: A Contemplation on Jane AddamsLouise W. KnightPart 3: Religion and Politics8.The Theology of Jane Addams: Religion “Seeking Its Own Adjustment”Eleanor J. Stebner9.Social Democracy, Cosmopolitan Hospitality, and Intercivilizational Peace: Lessons from Jane AddamsJudith M. Green10.Community Organizing: Addams and AlinskyMaurice Hamington11.Examining Addams’s Democratic Theory Through a Postcolonial Feminist LensJudy D. Whipps12.Engendering Democracy by Socializing It: Jane Addams’s Contribution to Feminist Political TheorizingWendy SarvasySelected BibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

“This well-crafted collection of essays recognizes Jane Addams as the inspiring and occasionally provocative feminist she was. Connecting Addams’s pragmatism to social theory, political philosophy, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and more, the book’s twelve authors sympathetically and critically explore Addams’s ongoing relevance to issues of art, culture, sexuality, prostitution, religion, cosmopolitanism, public/private divisions, and community organization. Scholarly experts on Addams, as well as those discovering her feminist pragmatism for the first time, will find this volume valuable.”—Shannon Sullivan, The Pennsylvania State University