Education of Jane Addams

"Excellent. . . . "The Education of Jane Addams" provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."--"Journal of American History"

List of contents

Introduction

1. Self-Made Man

2. The Predominant Elements of Her Character

3. Sober, Serious, and Earnest

4. Bread Givers

5. My Relations to God and the Universe

6. Cassandra

7. Claims So Keenly Felt

8. Scenes Among Gods and Giants

9. Never the Typical Old Maid

10. Some Curious Conclusions

11. The Subjective Necessity for the Social Settlement

12. Power in Me and Will to Dominate

13. The Luminous Medium

14. Unity of Action

15. What We Know Is Right

Epilogue

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Victoria Bissell Brown is Associate Professor of History at Grinnell College.

Summary

"Excellent. . . . The Education of Jane Addams provides a detailed, wonderfully complex analysis of Addams's ideas, life, and work."—Journal of American History

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Bissell Brown
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2007
• EAN: 9780812219524
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-1952-4
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Politics and Culture in Modern; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern America; Politics and Culture in Modern
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories