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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
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.
Introduction
1. Self-Made Man
2. The Predominant Elements of Her Character
3. Sober, Serious, and Earnest
4. Bread Givers
5. My Relations to God and the Universe
6. Cassandra
7. Claims So Keenly Felt
8. Scenes Among Gods and Giants
9. Never the Typical Old Maid
10. Some Curious Conclusions
11. The Subjective Necessity for the Social Settlement
12. Power in Me and Will to Dominate
13. The Luminous Medium
14. Unity of Action
15. What We Know Is Right
Epilogue
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments