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An autobiography by the famous Alice Salomon--the German Jane Addams
Women social workers --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- Salomon, Alice,
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"This reader features the most influential and insightful writings of Grace Abbott (1878-1939), a tireless and brilliant social reformer in the early twentieth century. These writings contributed to the development of social programs that safeguarded mothers and children, protected immigrants from abuse, and rescued child laborers from the appalling conditions of the time. Framed by reminiscences and observations on her life by her sister, Edith Abbott, and other important historical figures, these writings recapture a critical turning point - and a significant voice - in the never-ending struggle for social justice in this nation."--Jacket.
Women social reformers --- Women social workers --- Feminists --- Social justice. --- Abbott, Grace, --- Abbott, Edith,
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Child welfare --- Women social reformers --- Women social workers --- Women in the professions --- Professions --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- Social reformers --- History. --- History --- E-books
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Civil society --- Democracy --- Women social reformers --- Women social workers --- Social reformers --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- Addams, Jane, --- Edems, Dzheyn, --- Addams, Laura Jane, --- Biography --- Addams, Jane
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Addresses a long-neglected topic - the role of men in social work. Considers influence of feminist analysis on male professional practice, service delivery and planning as well as assessing male-female work relationships.
Women social workers --- Social work with men --- Men --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Sociology of social welfare --- Great Britain
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Sophonisba Breckinridge's remarkable career stretched from the Civil War to the Cold War. She took part in virtually every reform campaign of the Progressive and New Deal eras and became a nationally and internationally renowned figure. Her work informed women's activism for decades and continues to shape progressive politics today. Anya Jabour's biography rediscovers this groundbreaking American figure.
Feminists --- Feminism --- Women social workers --- Women social reformers --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- History --- Breckinridge, Sophonisba P. --- Breckinridge, Sophonisba Preston, --- Breckenridge, Sophonisba Preston, --- Breckinridge, S. P.
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"This group biography explores the lives, work, and personal relations of nine white, middle and upper-middle-class women who were involved in the first decade of Chicago's premier social settlement. This "galaxy of stars"--As they were called in their own day - were active in innumerable political, social, and religious reform efforts." "The Women of Hull House refutes the humanistic interpretation of the social settlement movement. Its spiritual base is highlighted as the author describes it as the practical/ethical side of the social gospel movement and as an attempt to transform late nineteenth-century evangelical and doctrinal Christian religion. While the women of Hull House differed from one another in their theological beliefs and were often critical of orthodox Christianity, they were motivated by Christian ideals." "By showing the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship, the author argues that individual actions for social changes must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints."--Jacket.
Social settlements --- Women social reformers --- Women social workers --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- Social reformers --- Church settlements --- College settlements --- Neighborhood centers --- Settlement houses --- Settlements, Social --- University settlements --- Charities --- History. --- Addams, Jane, --- Edems, Dzheyn, --- Addams, Laura Jane, --- Hull House (Chicago, Ill.) --- Hull House, Chicago --- Addams, Jane
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Rolene Miller registered Mosaic, Training, Service and Healing Centre to empower abused women, and like a Mosaic 'to put the broken pieces of their lives together and make their lives more beautiful,' Womandla! Women Power! is an account of Mosaic's Community Workers' and Court Workers' lives, training and services and Rolene's writings describing the journey. Their humour and laughter is present whilst constantly moving through the difficult days at Mosaic. This book describes Mosaic's support from our caring God. It is a human story where honest values are realised and people's lives are changed forever. It is for readers who want to know the 'Herstory' of a ground-breaking and innovative Mosaic working with abused women for 25 successful years and still surviving today. 'Womandla! Women Power!' belongs to everyone who in our patriarchal culture and society wants to prevent and stop Women Abuse and Domestic Violence and who needs to seriously and critically condemn it.
Women social workers --- Social work with women --- Abused women --- Battered women --- Victims of crimes --- Women --- Battered woman syndrome --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- Services for --- Miller, Rolene. --- Mosaic, Training, Service and Healing Centre for Women. --- Mosaic Training, Service and Healing Centre for Women
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Jane Addams was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Now Citizen, Louise W. Knight's masterful biography, reveals Addams's early development as a political activist and social philosopher. In this book we observe a powerful mind grappling with the radical ideas of her age, most notably the ever-changing meanings of democracy. Citizen covers the first half of Addams's life, from 1860 to 1899. Knight recounts how Addams, a child of a wealthy family in rural northern Illinois, longed for a life of larger purpose. She broadened her horizons through education, reading, and travel, and, after receiving an inheritance upon her father's death, moved to Chicago in 1889 to co-found Hull House, the city's first settlement house. Citizen shows vividly what the settlement house actually was-a neighborhood center for education and social gatherings-and describes how 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. These experiences, Knight makes clear, transformed Addams. Always a believer in democracy as an abstraction, Addams came to understand that this national ideal was also a life philosophy and a mandate for civic activism by all. As her story unfolds, Knight astutely captures the enigmatic Addams's compassionate personality as well as her flawed human side. Written in a strong narrative voice, Citizen is an insightful portrait of the formative years of a great American leader. "Knight's decision to focus on Addams's early years is a stroke of genius. We know a great deal about Jane Addams the public figure. We know relatively little about how she made the transition from the 19th century to the 20th. In Knight's book, Jane Addams comes to life. . . . Citizen is written neither to make money nor to gain academic tenure; it is a gift, meant to enlighten and improve. Jane Addams would have understood."-Alan Wolfe, New York Times Book Review "My only complaint about the book is that there wasn't more of it. . . . Knight honors Addams as an American original."-Kathleen Dalton, Chicago Tribune
Women social workers --- Social workers --- Women social reformers --- Social reformers --- Women in charitable work --- Addams, Jane, --- Edems, Dzheyn, --- Addams, Laura Jane, --- Addams, Jane --- United States --- Biography --- jane addams, hull house, poverty, immigration, women, gender, activism, philosophy, democracy, nobel peace prize, wealth, class, rural, illinois, chicago, city, urban, immigrants, settlement, neighborhood, community, education, working conditions, labor, corruption, suffrage, history, politics, nonfiction, equality, feminism, social workers, reform, citizenship, leadership.
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, indigenous communities in the United States and Australia suffered a common experience at the hands of state authorities: the removal of their children to institutions in the name of assimilating American Indians and protecting Aboriginal people. Although officially characterized as benevolent, these government policies often inflicted great trauma on indigenous families and ultimately served the settler nations' larger goals of consolidating control over indigenous peoples and their lands.
Women social workers. --- Women, White. --- Indian children --- Children, Aboriginal Australian --- Stolen generations (Australia) --- Indigenous peoples --- Social workers --- Women in charitable work --- White women --- Children, Indian --- Indians --- Children --- Aboriginal Australian children --- Children, Australian aboriginal --- Aboriginal Australians --- Forced removal of Aboriginal Australian children --- Generations, Stolen (Australia) --- Stolen generation (Australia) --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native peoples --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Institutional care --- Cultural assimilation --- Stolen generations --- Government relations --- Women, Aboriginal Australian --- Children, Aboriginal Australia --- Aboriginal Australian women --- Women, Australian aboriginal --- Women, Aboriginal Australian. --- Children, Aboriginal Australia.
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