Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams
- Publish Date: 8/11/2010
- Dimensions: 6 x 9
- Page Count: 352 pages
- Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-03693-9
- Paperback ISBN: 978-0-271-03694-6
- Series Name: Re-Reading the Canon
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“This well-crafted collection of essays recognizes Jane Addams as the inspiring and occasionally provocative feminist she was. Connecting Addams’s pragmatism to social theory, political philosophy, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and more, the book’s twelve authors sympathetically and critically explore Addams’s ongoing relevance to issues of art, culture, sexuality, prostitution, religion, cosmopolitanism, public/private divisions, and community organization. Scholarly experts on Addams, as well as those discovering her feminist pragmatism for the first time, will find this volume valuable.”
“Maurice Hamington has brought together an exciting, readable, and intellectually challenging group of articles on Jane Addams. The holistic approach of several essays highlights Addams’s own views, which linked people’s well-being, human rights, women’s equality, democracy, and world peace. The collection will delight Addams’s admirers and enlighten her detractors.”
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 “get tough” approaches to solve domestic and global problems, Addams’s social theorizing, which emphasizes cosmopolitan experiences and sympathetic connections, provides a provocative alternative to Western notions of individualism, transactional relations, and spectator epistemology. Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams brings together many of the leading Addams scholars in North America to consider Addams’s ongoing relevance to feminist thought.
Aside from the editor, the contributors are Victoria Bissell Brown, Marilyn Fischer, Judith M. Green, Shannon Jackson, Katherine Joslin, Louise W. Knight, L. Ryan Musgrave Bonomo, Wendy Sarvasy, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Eleanor J. Stebner, and Judy D. Whipps.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Culture and Art
1. Reading Jane Addams in the Twenty-first Century
Katherine Joslin
2. Cultural Contradictions: Jane Addams’s Struggles with the Life of Art and the Art of Life
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
3. Trojan Women and Devil Baby Tales: Addams on Domestic Violence
Marilyn Fischer
4. Addams’s Philosophy of Art: Feminist Aesthetics and Moral Imagination at Hull House
L. Ryan Musgrave Bonomo
Part 2: Sex and Society
5. Sex and the City: Jane Addams Confronts Prostitution
Victoria Bissell Brown
6. Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane Addams
Shannon Jackson
7. Love on Halsted Street: A Contemplation on Jane Addams
Louise W. Knight
Part 3: Religion and Politics
8. The Theology of Jane Addams: Religion “Seeking Its Own Adjustment”
Eleanor J. Stebner
9. Social Democracy, Cosmopolitan Hospitality, and Intercivilizational Peace: Lessons from Jane Addams
Judith M. Green
10. Community Organizing: Addams and Alinsky
Maurice Hamington
11. Examining Addams’s Democratic Theory Through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens
Judy D. Whipps
12. Engendering Democracy by Socializing It: Jane Addams’s Contribution to Feminist Political Theorizing
Wendy Sarvasy
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
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