Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy

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Label

Citizen : Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy

Title remainder

Jane Addams and the struggle for democracy

Statement of responsibility

Louise W. Knight

Creator

• Knight, Louise W

Subject

• Social reformers -- United States -- Biography
• Social workers -- United States -- Biography
• Addams, Jane, 1860-1935,
• Women social workers -- United States -- Biography
• Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. This biography, covering the first half of Addams's life, reveals in detail her development as a political activist and social philosopher--we observe the powerful mind of a woman encountering the radical ideas of her age. Addams, a child of a wealthy family, longed for a life of larger purpose. After receiving an inheritance, she moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house--a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings As Addams learned of the abject working conditions in American factories, the unchecked power wielded by employers, the impact of corrupt local politics on city services, and the intolerable limits placed on women by their lack of voting rights, she was transformed: she came to understand that the national ideal of democracy was also a mandate for civic activism.--From publisher description

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 361.92
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

HV40.32.A33

LC item number

K59 2005

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography