Julia Lathrop: Social Service and Progressive Government

by Miriam Cohen

Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women's proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau, created in 1912 to promote child welfare, she was the first woman to head a United States federal agency. Throughout her life, Lathrop challenged the social norms of the time and became instrumental in shaping Progressive reform. She began...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081334803X
• ISBN13: 9780813348032
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.3"