Twenty Years at Hull-House (Signet classics) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451519558 ISBN 13: 9780451519559

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia, 1987

Synopsis

"Twenty Years at Hull House" from Jane Addams. American settlement social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace (1860 – 1935).

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Review

"An indispensable classic of American intellectual and social history." -- Berenice A. Carroll, editor of Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays. "After twenty years of relative obscurity, the early-twentieth-century social crusader and author of Twenty Years at Hull-House is once again in the spotlight." -- Arianne Chernock, Lingua Franca. "The classic account of the development of Hull-House into a vibrant community center for Chicago's immigrants and poor. Addams' memoir is central to understanding the aims and mood of the progressive era." -- The Front Table

About the Author

Victoria Bissell Brown (Ph.D., UCSD) is associate professor of history and chair of gender and women's studies at Grinnell College. She is currently writing a biography of Jane Addams and has published articles on Addams's role in the woman suffrage movement and the Pullman strike. She has also written on female socialization, particularly in Los Angeles, at the turn of the century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451519558
• ISBN 13: 9780451519559
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback