“To Reveal the Humble Immigrant Parents to Their Own Children” Immigrant Women, Their American Daughters, and the Hull-House Labor Museum

This essay explores how Jane Addams used her Labor Museum to attempt to connect immigrant adolescents with their parents

Jane Addams e o feminismo como pacificador social

El presente artículo se propone recuperar la figura de Jane Addams como pensadora feminista, teórica y trabajadora de lo social, a quien se le debe el nacimiento del Trabajo Social en los Estados Unidos de América y la creación de la Hull House; trabajos que la harían merecedora del segundo Premio Nobel de la Paz concedido a una mujer en 1931. El pensamiento social de Addams apunta a la construcción de un Estado de bienestar ético y democrático, cuyo modelo se basa en la interacción materna, distintiva de lo femenino y opuesta a la ética de la competencia y la ganancia mercantil.This article seeks to reestablish the figure of Jane Addams as a feminist thinker, social theorist and worker. Jane Addams founded Social Work in the United States and created Hull House, earning her in 1931 the second Nobel Peace Prize awarded to a woman. Addams’ social thought works toward the construction of an ethical and democratic welfare state modeled on the maternal interactions of a feminine ethic rather than an ethic of competition and business gain.Fil: Binetti, María José. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estudios de Género; Argentin

President Bergeron\u27s 99th Commencement Address

President Bergeron offers remarks on A Whole New Way of Listening to the Class of 2016

American Progressives and the European Left

Until comparatively recently, historians treated progressivism of the early twentieth century variety as if it were a purely American affair. In 1952, Eric F. Goldman argued that progressivism was ‘as exclusively national a movement as the United States ever knew’. But in the years that followed, a number of works appeared which challenged the validity of this narrowly national interpretation. Arthur Mann, in 1956, suggested that American reformers were much influenced by British social thought. Gertrude Almy Slichter drew attention to the European background of American reform in a 1960 dissertation. A number of essays then showed that progressivism itself could be regarded as part of an international movement. Peter F. Clarke pointed out that there had been a progressive movement in England which, in fact, predated the American equivalent. Kenneth O. Morgan, reviewing the nature of the links between British and American reformers, thought it meaningful to write in terms of ‘ Anglo-American Progressivism’. Other historians, looking at the matter in a more general, European context, were struck by the apparent similarities between American progressives, British Liberals or Labourites, and French and German socialists. George E. Mowry argued that American progressives should be regarded as part of western ‘social democracy’. Arthur A. Ekirch came to much the same conclusion

Book review: women in political theory by Jane Duran

Women in Political Theory is the first volume to explore the intersections of feminism, politics and philosophy, and to consider the contribution of women philosophers to the field of contemporary political thought, claims its author Jane Duran. With a focus on five central thinkers, Sarah Grimké, Anna Julia Cooper, Jane Addams, Rosa Luxemburg, and Hannah Arendt, Duran hopes to show that each woman was in fact an established political theorist of her time. Katherine Williams recommends this volume to students, scholars and readers with an interest in philosophy, political and social theory, feminism, and gender studies

Ethnic Education: A Clash of Cultures in Progressive Chicago

The City of Chicago recently embarked upon a pioneering effort to transform the quality of its public school system. The concept of decentralization that allows for neighborhood councils, greater decision-making at the local level, and increased parental involvement in the schools is not a new one. Similar governance structures of a century ago fell victim to class and ethnic factionalism. The progressive vision of a homogenous society assumed a passive clientele and a consensus culture. Particular educational programs brought diverse groups closer to the mainstream, but the resultant mass culture accommodated pluralistic values rather than the sought-after homogeneity

Epistemic Housekeeping and the Philosophical Canon: A Reflection on Jane Addams’ “Women and Public Housekeeping"

In 1913, the National American Woman Suffrage Association published a broadside by Jane Addams, of about 740 words, titled “Women and Public Housekeeping.” A broadside is a poster, printed on one side, to be distributed or hung, and then thrown away. In the contemporary context, it is something like a flyer, maybe a blog post. In the world of publishing, broadsides are historical “ephemera.