Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott

By Lela B. Costin

Book Overview

"The Abbott sisters forsook the comforts and confinements of the status quo to join the struggle for social justice. From the Progressive Era through the New Deal they were an integral part of the debate that raged around the issues of suffrage, workers' rights, child labor laws, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, the "immigrant problem," tenement housing, social security, emergency relief programs, and the peace movement. Refusing to claim any of the special "feminine" insights often attributed to their contemporary Jane Addams, the Abbotts assumed the role of social engineers and strove for a specialized competence with which to understand the entire social system."--BOOK JACKET.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252010132
• ISBN13: 9780252010132
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"