edited by Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff and Wendy Chmielewski contributions by Carol Nackenoff, Karen Pastorello, Wendy Sarvasay, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Camilla Stivers, Harriet Hyman Alonso, Victoria Bissell Brown, Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, Shannon Jackson and Louise W Knight
University of Illinois Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-252-07612-1 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09122-3 | Cloth: 978-0-252-03406-0 Library of Congress Classification HV28.A35J36 2009 Dewey Decimal Classification 361.92
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for activists, scholars, policy makers, and theorists alike. This volume demonstrates how scholars continue to interpret Addams as a model for transcending disciplinary boundaries, generating theory out of concrete experience, and keeping theory and practice in close and fruitful dialogue.
Contributors are Harriet Hyman Alonso, Victoria Bissell Brown, Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, Shannon Jackson, Louise W. Knight, Carol Nackenoff, Karen Pastorello, Wendy Sarvasay, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and Camilla Stivers.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marilyn Fischer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton and a coeditor of a four-volume set of Jane Addams's Writings on Peace. Carol Nackenoff is Richter Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and the author of The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. Wendy Chmielewski is the George Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which holds the largest collection of Jane Addams's papers and other material related to Addams and her work for peace.
REVIEWS
"Profound and comprehensive."--Peace and Change
"This excellent volume illuminates the template Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams forged by conceptualizing citizenship to include welfare rights, appreciation for diversity, and peace-oriented global connections. This book belongs in the hands of activists, scholars, policy makers, and concerned citizens alike."--Eileen McDonagh, author of The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy
"A coherent, thoughtful volume that promises to introduce a new generation of students to the thought of Jane Addams. Theorists of all sorts will have to grapple with her ideas about citizenship, participation, peace, care, diversity and difference, and building a better community."--Eileen Boris, coeditor of The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff, Wendy Chmielewski
Part I: Addams's Experimental Method
1. The Sermon of the Deed: Jane Addams's Spiritual Evolution
Victoria Bissell Brown
2. The Courage of One's Convictions or the Conviction of One's
Courage? Jane Addams's Principled Compromises
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Part II: Jane Addams and the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
3. Jane Addams's Theory of Cooperation
Louise W. Knight
4. A Civic Machinery for Democratic Expression: Jane Addams on
Public Administration
Camilla Stivers
5. "The Transfigured Few": Jane Addams, Bessie Abramowitz
Hillman, and Immigrant Women Workers in Chicago, 1905-1915
Karen Pastorello
6. New Politics for New Selves: Jane Addams's Legacy for
Democratic Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
Carol Nackenoff
7. Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane Addams
Shannon Jackson
Part III: Democratic Cosmopolitanism and Peace
8. The Conceptual Scaffolding of Newer Ideals of Peace
Marilyn Fischer
9. A Global "Common Table": Jane Addams's Theory of Democratic
Cosmopolitanism and World Social Citizenship
Wendy Sarvasy
10. Can Jane Addams Serve as a Role Model for Us Today?
Harriet Hyman Alonso
Contributors
Index
edited by Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff and Wendy Chmielewski contributions by Carol Nackenoff, Karen Pastorello, Wendy Sarvasay, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, Camilla Stivers, Harriet Hyman Alonso, Victoria Bissell Brown, Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, Shannon Jackson and Louise W Knight
University of Illinois Press, 2008 Paper: 978-0-252-07612-1 eISBN: 978-0-252-09122-3 Cloth: 978-0-252-03406-0
Using a rich array of newly available sources and contemporary methodologies from many disciplines, the ten original essays in this volume give a fresh appraisal of Addams as a theorist and practitioner of democracy. In an increasingly interdependent world, Addams's life work offers resources for activists, scholars, policy makers, and theorists alike. This volume demonstrates how scholars continue to interpret Addams as a model for transcending disciplinary boundaries, generating theory out of concrete experience, and keeping theory and practice in close and fruitful dialogue.
Contributors are Harriet Hyman Alonso, Victoria Bissell Brown, Wendy Chmielewski, Marilyn Fischer, Shannon Jackson, Louise W. Knight, Carol Nackenoff, Karen Pastorello, Wendy Sarvasay, Charlene Haddock Seigfried, and Camilla Stivers.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marilyn Fischer is a professor of philosophy at the University of Dayton and a coeditor of a four-volume set of Jane Addams's Writings on Peace. Carol Nackenoff is Richter Professor of Political Science at Swarthmore College and the author of The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse. Wendy Chmielewski is the George Cooley Curator of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, which holds the largest collection of Jane Addams's papers and other material related to Addams and her work for peace.
REVIEWS
"Profound and comprehensive."--Peace and Change
"This excellent volume illuminates the template Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams forged by conceptualizing citizenship to include welfare rights, appreciation for diversity, and peace-oriented global connections. This book belongs in the hands of activists, scholars, policy makers, and concerned citizens alike."--Eileen McDonagh, author of The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy
"A coherent, thoughtful volume that promises to introduce a new generation of students to the thought of Jane Addams. Theorists of all sorts will have to grapple with her ideas about citizenship, participation, peace, care, diversity and difference, and building a better community."--Eileen Boris, coeditor of The Practice of U.S. Women's History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff, Wendy Chmielewski
Part I: Addams's Experimental Method
1. The Sermon of the Deed: Jane Addams's Spiritual Evolution
Victoria Bissell Brown
2. The Courage of One's Convictions or the Conviction of One's
Courage? Jane Addams's Principled Compromises
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
Part II: Jane Addams and the Practice of Democratic Citizenship
3. Jane Addams's Theory of Cooperation
Louise W. Knight
4. A Civic Machinery for Democratic Expression: Jane Addams on
Public Administration
Camilla Stivers
5. "The Transfigured Few": Jane Addams, Bessie Abramowitz
Hillman, and Immigrant Women Workers in Chicago, 1905-1915
Karen Pastorello
6. New Politics for New Selves: Jane Addams's Legacy for
Democratic Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
Carol Nackenoff
7. Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane Addams
Shannon Jackson
Part III: Democratic Cosmopolitanism and Peace
8. The Conceptual Scaffolding of Newer Ideals of Peace
Marilyn Fischer
9. A Global "Common Table": Jane Addams's Theory of Democratic
Cosmopolitanism and World Social Citizenship
Wendy Sarvasy
10. Can Jane Addams Serve as a Role Model for Us Today?
Harriet Hyman Alonso
Contributors
Index
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC