The Education of Jane Addams

by Brown, Victoria Bissell

• ISBN13: 9780812237474
• ISBN10: 0812237471
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-29
• Publisher: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr

Summary

The Education of Jane Addams traces, with unprecedented care, Addams's three-decade journey from a privileged prairie girlhood through her years as the competent spinster daughter in a demanding family after her father's death to her early seasoning on the Chicago reform scene. It weaves her spiritual struggles with Christianity into her political struggles with elitism and her emotional struggles with intimacy. Finally, it reveals the logic of her journey to Chicago and makes biographical sense of the political and personal choices she made once she arrived there. The founder of Chicago's Hull-House and, later, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is portrayed here as a complicated young woman who summoned the energy to pursue public life, the honesty to admit her own arrogance, and the imagination to see joy in collective endeavor.

Author Biography

Victoria Bissell Brown is Associate Professor of History at Grinnell College.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(12)
Self-Made Man	13	(11)
The Predominant Elements of Her Character	24	(15)
Sober, Serious, and Earnest	39	(16)
Bread Givers	55	(17)
My Relations to God and the Universe	72	(20)
Cassandra	92	(18)
Claims So Keenly Felt	110	(20)
Scenes Among Gods and Giants	130	(18)
Never the Typical Old Maid	148	(18)
Some Curious Conclusions	166	(19)
The Subjective Necessity for the Social Settlement	185	(25)
Power in Me and Will to Dominate	210	(17)
The Luminous Medium	227	(20)
Unity of Action	247	(24)
What We Know Is Right	271	(24)
Epilogue	295	(4)
Notes	299	(102)
Selected Bibliography	401	(6)
Index	407	(12)
Acknowledgments	419