Jane Addams and the practice of democracy /edited by Marilyn Fischer, Carol Nackenoff, and Wendy Chmielewski. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2009. - 1 online resource

Chapters based on presentations at two conferences held in 2002.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Addams's experimental method. The sermon of the deed : Jane Addams's spiritual evolution / Jane Addams and the practice of democratic citizenship. Jane Addams's theory of cooperation / Democratic cosmopolitanism and peace. The conceptual scaffolding of Newer ideals of peace / Victoria Bissell Brown ; The courage of one's convictions or the conviction of one's courage? : Jane Addams's principled compromises / Charlene Haddock Seigfried -- Louise W. Knight ; A civic machinery for democratic expression : Jane Addams on public administration / Camilla Stivers ; "The transfigured few" : Jane Addams, Bessie Abramowitz Hillman, and immigrant women workers in Chicago, 1905-15 / Karen Pastorello ; New politics for new selves : Jane Addams's legacy for democratic citizenship in the twenty-first century / Carol Nackenoff ; Toward a queer social welfare studies : unsettling Jane Addams / Shannon Jackson -- Marilyn Fischer ; A global "common table" : Jane Addams's theory of democratic cosmopolitanism and world social citizenship / Wendy Sarvasy ; Can Jane Addams serve as a role model for us today? / Harriet Hyman Alonso.



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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 --Congresses.


Women social workers--United States--Biography--Congresses.
Women social reformers--United States--Biography--Congresses.
Democracy--Congresses.
Civil society--Congresses.


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