Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027103694X
• ISBN13: 9780271036946
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"