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Sophonisba Breckinridge : Championing Women's Activism in Modern America /
"Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (1866-1948) was an activist, social reformer, and educator who spent most of her life in Chicago whose life and work extended from the Civil War to the Cold War. Though a contemporary and partner to Jane Addams, this will be the first comprehensive biography of...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: "a woman's work" and "the work of the world"
- Becoming a Breckinridge: a Kentucky childhood
- Preparation for citizenship: an "all-around girl" at Wellesley College
- Striving for the ideal: female achievement and the family claim
- Academic activism: social science and social reform in progressive-era Chicago
- The other "Chicago school": the School of Social Service Administration
- Defining equality: fairness and feminism
- Women against war: an international movement for peace and justice
- The potential and pitfalls of Pan-American feminism
- Toward a national minimum: women building the welfare state
- "A & B": a productive partnership
- Epilogue: passionate patience.