Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams

Contents

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

“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