Jane Addams stands as perhaps one of the most prominent female voices in social theory of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. While built through books, essays, journal articles, and speeches, her intellectual legacy has seldom been recognized as academic by contemporary audiences. Yet, over the last forty years, her contributions to sociology, philosophy, conceptions of democracy, inquiry, feminism, care ethics, community engagement, social ethics, community engagement, peace, municipal governance, social justice, and more have emerged and received traction in the scholarly literature. The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams is a selective collection of original analyses offered by an international group of social and political theorists who have contributed to the burgeoning field of Addams Studies.
This Handbook is a testament to the maturity of contemporary Jane Addams studies. Less than a half-century ago, such a scholarly collection would have been considered unwarranted. Despite intellectually influencing her contemporaries, Addams was marginalized as an original thinker for much of the 20th century. Today, a resurgence of academic work led by feminist scholars such as Mary Jo Deegan and Charlene Haddock Seigfried has restored Addams to her rightful place as an essential intellectual pioneer with ongoing significance. This collection pays particular attention to her contributions to scholarly fields of sociology and philosophy as well as to more professional disciplines of public administration and social work. Furthermore, this volume signifies Addams's global impact as scholars from all over the world contribute to the tapestry of her intellectual legacy. The 38 chapters in this volume are divided into six sections: Addams, Democracy and Social Theory; Addams and Her
Contemporaries; Addams Across Disciplines; Addams, Peace and International Relations; Addams on Knowledge and Methods; and Addams and Social Practice. A major focus of The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams is how Addams's insights remain relevant when confronting today's social challenges.
Author(s): Patricia M. Shields, Maurice Hamington, Joseph Soeters
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 794
City: New York
Cover
The Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. On the Maturation of Addams Studies: A Figure of Vital Intellectual and Practical Significance
Part I. Addams, Democracy, and Social Theory
2. Jane Addams’s Democratic Vision
3. Vital Lies and the Fate of Democracy
4. Jane Addams: Care-Centered Leadership and the Democratic Community
5. Jane Addams and Richard Rorty: The Philosophy and Practice of Pragmatist Social Ethics
6. Labor Unions as a Factor in a Caring Democracy
Part II. Addams and Her Contemporaries
7. The Complementary Theory and Practice of Jane Addams and George Herbert Mead: Bending Toward Justice
8. Legacies of Jane Addams and W. E. B. Du Bois: Lessons for Scholarship on Diversity and Inclusion in Organizations
9. Jane Addams and John Dewey
10. Jane Addams and William James on Sport and Recreation
11. Jane Addams and Mary Parker Follett’s Search for Cooperation
12. Hull House Social Change Methodology and New Deal Reforms
13. Intersections of Race, Gender, and Class in Jane Addams’s Political Friendships
Part III. Addams Across Disciplines
14. Inhabiting Reality: The Literary Art of Jane Addams
15. A Biographer’s Angle on Jane Addams’s Feminism
16. Jane Addams and Public Administration: Clarifying Industrial Citizenship
17. Jane Addams on Play, Education, and Ethical Teaching
18. Dialogue, Liminality, and a Spatial Ethic of Reciprocity in Difference: Jane Addams’s Social Ethics at the Confluence of Feminism and Pragmatism
19. Public Administration and Social Equity: Catching Up to Jane Addams
20. Was Jane Addams a Sociologist?
Part IV. Addams, Peace, and International Relations
21. Peace Pragmatism and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda
22. Jane Addams, Expansive Masculinity, and the Fragility of the War Virtues
23. Jane Addams and the Noble Art of Peaceweaving
24. Strange Encounters?: Contemporary Field Researchers and Six Lessons from Jane Addams
25. Jane Addams and Twenty- First Century Refugee Resettlement: Toward the Substitution of Nurture for Warfare
Part V. Addams on Knowledge and Methods
26. Addams’s Methodologies of Writing, Thinking, and Activism
27. Hull House Maps and Papers, 1895: A Feminist Research Approach to Urban Inequalities by Jane Addams and Florence Kelley
28. Jane Addams, Social Design, and Wicked Problems: Designing In, With, and Across
29. Jane Addams’s Use of Narrative in Sociological Research: “As no one but a neighbor can see”
30. Jane Addams and the Return to Settlement Sociology: Inspiration for How to Help Others in the Digital Age
31. Jane Addams’s Pragmatist Feminist Thoughts and Actions for and with Ill and Disabled Women
32. Making the Jane Addams Papers Accessible to New Audiences
Part VI. Addams and Social Practice
33. Jane Addams and Settlement Sociology
34. Social Ethics for Ecological and Community Resilience: Jane Addams and the Environment
35. Jane Addams’s Education, Hull House, and Current-Day Civic-Engagement Practices in Higher Education: Coming Full Circle
36. Jane Addams and Epistemic Agency in Contemporary Social Work
37. Affect and Emotion in Jane Addams’s Thought
38. Epilogue: Jane Addams’s Contemporary Relevance
Index
