Jane Addams, the Settlement Women of Hull House, and the Feminist Pragmatist Orientation
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
11-20-2023
Abstract
Jane Addams and the settlement women of Hull House lived and acted as public intellectuals at the turn of the twentieth century but were written out of many of the professions and fields of study they shaped. With special attention to the work and writings of Jane Addams, this chapter offers an overview of the feminist pragmatist orientation that defined these women’s public intellectualism, delineating five themes that frame this orientation and the kind of community engagement and public intellectualism that Jane Addams and the settlement women of Hull House exemplified. These five themes are the relationally interconnected self, democracy as a way of life, place-based and empathetic inquiry through cooperative action, narrative-informed social scientific method, and lateral progress toward cosmopolitan humanitarianism. The chapter closes with a discussion of the value of recovering a feminist pragmatist orientation for contemporary public-facing scholarship.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197558898.013.18
Publication Information
Lowe, Barbara and Fenton, Jennifer Kiefer (2023). "Jane Addams, the Settlement Women of Hull House, and the Feminist Pragmatist Orientation." The Oxford Handbook The Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century .
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