Description
Book SynopsisA collection of articles that address Jane Addams (1860-1935) in terms of her contribution to feminist philosophy and theory through her work on culture, art, sex, society, religion, and politics.
Trade Review“This well-crafted collection of essays recognizes Jane Addams as the inspiring and occasionally provocative feminist she was. Connecting Addams’s pragmatism to social theory, political philosophy, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and more, the book’s twelve authors sympathetically and critically explore Addams’s ongoing relevance to issues of art, culture, sexuality, prostitution, religion, cosmopolitanism, public/private divisions, and community organization. Scholarly experts on Addams, as well as those discovering her feminist pragmatism for the first time, will find this volume valuable.”
—Shannon Sullivan,The Pennsylvania State University
“Maurice Hamington has brought together an exciting, readable, and intellectually challenging group of articles on Jane Addams. The holistic approach of several essays highlights Addams’s own views, which linked people’s well-being, human rights, women’s equality, democracy, and world peace. The collection will delight Addams’s admirers and enlighten her detractors.”
—Harriet Alonso,City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center
“Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams forms a valuable resource for scholars interested in pragmatism and feminism but crucially also constitutes an instance of canonical re-reading, which lovers of philosophy more generally benefit from.”
—Clara Fischer The Pluralist
Table of ContentsContents
Preface
Introduction
Part 1: Culture and Art
1. Reading Jane Addams in the Twenty-first Century
Katherine Joslin
2. Cultural Contradictions: Jane Addams’s Struggles with the Life of Art and the Art of Life
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
3. Trojan Women and Devil Baby Tales: Addams on Domestic Violence
Marilyn Fischer
4. Addams’s Philosophy of Art: Feminist Aesthetics and Moral Imagination at Hull House
L. Ryan Musgrave Bonomo
Part 2: Sex and Society
5. Sex and the City: Jane Addams Confronts Prostitution
Victoria Bissell Brown
6. Toward a Queer Social Welfare Studies: Unsettling Jane Addams
Shannon Jackson
7. Love on Halsted Street: A Contemplation on Jane Addams
Louise W. Knight
Part 3: Religion and Politics
8. The Theology of Jane Addams: Religion “Seeking Its Own Adjustment”
Eleanor J. Stebner
9. Social Democracy, Cosmopolitan Hospitality, and Intercivilizational Peace: Lessons from Jane Addams
Judith M. Green
10. Community Organizing: Addams and Alinsky
Maurice Hamington
11. Examining Addams’s Democratic Theory Through a Postcolonial Feminist Lens
Judy D. Whipps
12. Engendering Democracy by Socializing It: Jane Addams’s Contribution to Feminist Political Theorizing
Wendy Sarvasy
Selected Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
