The Jane Addams reader

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: "THE STATE OF PREPARATION" AND THE CREATION OF A VOCATION: The Macbeth of Shakespeare

Bread givers

Cassandra

The subjective necessity for social settlements

The objective value of a social settlement

The settlement as a factor in the labor movement

The subtle problems of charity

Filial relations

The influence of Lincoln

The snare of preparation

PART TWO: INTRODUCTION: JUSTICE AND AMELIORATION: FINDING DEMOCRACY'S MIDDLE WAY: Why the ward boss rules

The wrecked foundations of domesticity

The thirst for righteousness

Survivals of militarism in city government

A modern Lear

Moral education and legal protection of children

Religious education and contemporary social conditions

The Chicago settlements and social unrest

The home and the special child

If men were seeking the franchise

The public school and the immigrant child

Americanization

PART THREE: INTRODUCTION: WOMEN'S REMEMBERING HEART: BREAD-GIVING, PEACE-MAKING, AND SYMPATHY AS POLITICAL FORCES: Women's conscience and social amelioration

The sheltered woman and the Magdalen

Introduction (from The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House)

Aspects of the woman's movement

Contrasts in post-war generation

A review of Bread Rations and Woman's Traditions

Personal reactions in time of war

Address of Miss Addams at Carnegie Hall (The revolt against war)

Women's memories: challenging war

Patriotism and pacifists in wartime

Friendship with Florence Kelley: National Conference on Social Work

PART FOUR: INTRODUCTION: CULTURE, CHARACTER, AND THE POWER OF MEMORY: Pen and book as tests of character

Women's memories: transmitting the past, as illustrated by the story of the Devil Baby

Women's memories: reaction on life, as illustrated by the story of the Devil Baby

A personal experience in interpreting memory

The play instinct and the arts

Need a woman over fifty feel old?

Tolstoy and Gandhi

Our national self-righteousness.