Feminist interpretations of Jane Addams
By: edited by Maurice Hamington.
Contributors: Hamington, Maurice.
Series: Re-reading the Canon
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271036939; 9780271036946
Subjects: Addams, Jane, -- 1860-1935; Feminist theory; Feminist theology
Description: "A collection of articles that address Jane Addams (1860-1935) in terms of her contribution to feminist philosophy and theory through her work on culture, art, sex, society, religion, and politics"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reading Jane Addams in the twenty-first century / Katherine Joslin; title: Cultural contradictions : Jane Addams's struggles with the life of art and; title: The art of life / Charlene Haddock Seigfried; title: Trojan women and devil baby tales : Addams on domestic violence / Marilyn Fischer; title: Addams's philosophy of art : feminist aesthetics and moral imagination at Hull House / L. Ryan Musgrave Bonomo; title: Sex and the city: Jane Addams confronts prostitution / Victoria Bissell Brown; title: Toward a queer social welfare studies : unsettling Jane Addams / Shannon Jackson; title: Love on Halsted Street : a contemplation on Jane Addams / Louise W. Knight; title: The theology of Jane Addams : religion "seeking its own adjustment" / Eleanor J. Stebner; title: Social democracy, cosmopolitan hospitality, and intercivilizational peace : lessons from Jane Addams / Judith M. Green; title: Community organizing : Addams and Alinsky / Maurice Hamington; title: Examining addams's democratic theory through a postcolonial feminist lens / Judy D. Whipps; title: Engendering democracy by socializing it : Jane Addams's contribution to feminist political theorizing / Wendy Sarvasy.