The Jane Addams Reader

This unique collection of writings by the great social reformer-edited by the author of Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy-reveals the essential Jane Addams.

Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Just War Against Terror and Democracy on Trial, among other books. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois.

Acknowledgments

xi

Permissions

xiii

Chronology of the Life of Jane Addams

xv

Hull-House Firsts

xix

A Return to Hull-House: Taking the Measure of an Extraordinary Life

xxi

Jean Bethke Elshtain

Part One Introduction: ``The Snare of Preparation'' and the Creation of a Vocation

1

(113)

``The Macbeth of Shakespeare''

5

(3)

``Bread Givers''

8

(2)

``Cassandra''

10

(4)

``The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements''

14

(15)

``The Objective Value of a Social Settlement''

29

(17)

``The Settlement as a Factor in the Labor Movement''

46

(16)

``The Subtle Problems of Charity''

62

(14)

``Filial Relations''

76

(12)

``The Influence of Lincoln''

88

(12)

``The Snare of Preparation''

100

(14)

Part Two Introduction: Justice and Amelioration---Finding Democracy's Middle Way

114

(134)

``Why the Ward Boss Rules''

118

(7)

``The Wrecked Foundations of Domesticity''

125

(11)

``The Thirst for Righteousness''

136

(11)

``Survivals of Militarism in City Government''

147

(16)

``A Modern Lear''

163

(14)

``Moral Education and Legal Protection of Children''

177

(19)

``Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions''

196

(9)

``The Chicago Settlements and Social Unrest''

205

(19)

``The Home and the Special Child''

224

(5)

``If Men Were Seeking the Franchise''

229

(6)

``The Public School and the Immigrant Child''

235

(5)

``Americanization''

240

(8)

Part Three Introduction: ``Woman's Remembering Heart'': Bread-Giving, Peace-Making, and Sympathy as Political Forces

248

(128)

``Women's Conscience and Social Amelioration''

252

(12)

``The Sheltered Woman and the Magdalen''

264

(6)

``Introduction'' (from The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House)

270

(5)

``Aspects of the Woman's Movement''

275

(19)

``Contrasts in Post-War Generation''

294

(13)

``A Review of Bread Rations and Woman's Traditions''

307

(9)

``Personal Reactions in Time of War''

316

(11)

``Address of Miss Addams at Carnegie Hall'' (The Revolt Against War)

327

(14)

``Women's Memories---Challenging War''

341

(11)

``Patriotism and Pacifists in Wartime''

352

(13)

``Friendship with Florence Kelley---National Conference on Social Work''

365

(11)

Part Four Introduction: Culture, Character, and the Power of Memory

376

(73)

``Pen and Book as Tests of Character''

379

(3)

``Women's Memories---Transmuting the Past, as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby''

382

(10)

``Women's Memories---Reaction on Life, as Illustrated by the Story of the Devil Baby''

392

(12)

``A Personal Experience in Interpreting Memory''

404

(12)

``The Play Instinct and the Arts''

416

(16)

``Need a Woman over Fifty Feel Old?''

432

(4)

``Tolstoy and Gandhi''

436

(6)

``Our National Self-Righteousness''

442

(7)

Bibliography of the Printed Works of Jane Addams

449

(26)

Index

475

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The Jane Addams Reader

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