Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at The University of Chicago. She is the author of over four hundred essays in scholarly journals and journals of civic opinion, and some one hundred and seventy five book reviews, and was a contributing editor at the New Republic . Among her books are Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy (Basic, 2001), Just War Against Terror (Basic, 2003) and Democracy on Trial (Basic, 1995). She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois. Klappentext This major new interpretive biography--by one of America's foremost public intellectuals--eloquently examines Jane Addams's cultural and political influence on her time and ours Zusammenfassung In this eagerly anticipated interpretation of the life and work of quintessential "public intellectual" Jane Addams (1860-1935), Jean Bethke Elshtain explores Addams's legacy thematically and chronologically, recounting her embrace of "social feminism," her challenge to the usual cleavage between "conservative" and "liberal," and the growth of Chicago's famed Hull House into a thriving cultural and intellectual center. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy is a rich and revealing portrait of one of the most extraordinary figures in American history.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Elshtain, Jean Bethke Elshtain
• Publisher: Basic Books Inc.
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 13 to 99
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2003
• EAN: 9780465019137
• ISBN: 978-0-465-01913-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 205 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls