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Sister's Memories电子书

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作       者:John Sorensen

出  版  社:University of Chicago Press

出版时间:2015-09-14

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Among the great figures of Progressive Era reform, Edith and Grace Abbott are perhaps the least sung. Peers, companions, and coworkers of legendary figures such as Jane Addams and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the Abbott sisters were nearly omnipresent in turn-of-the-century struggles to improve the lives of the poor and the working-class people who fed the industrial engines and crowded into diverse city neighborhoods. Grace's innovative role as a leading champion for the rights of children, immigrants, and women earned her a key place in the history of the social justice movement. As her friend and colleague Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, Grace was "e;one of the great women of our day . . . a definite strength which we could count on for use in battle."e;A Sister's Memories is the inspiring story of Grace Abbott (1878-1939), as told by her sister and social justice comrade, Edith Abbott (1876-1957). Edith recalls in vivid detail the Nebraska childhood, impressive achievements, and struggles of her sister who, as head of the Immigrants' Protective League and the U.S. Children's Bureau, championed children's rights from the slums of Chicago to the villages of Appalachia. Grace's crusade can perhaps be best summed up in her well-known credo: "e;Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy."e; Her efforts saved the lives of thousands of children and immigrants and improved those of millions more. These trailblazing social service works led the way to the creation of the Social Security Act and UNICEF and caused the press to nickname her "e;The Mother of America's 43 Million Children."e; She was the first woman in American history to be nominated to the presidential cabinet and the first person to represent the United States at a committee of the League of Nations.Edited by Abbott scholar John Sorensen, A Sister's Memories is destined to become a classic. It shapes the diverse writings of Edith Abbott into a cohesive narrative for the first time and fills in the gaps of our understanding of Progressive Era reforms. Readers of all backgrounds will find themselves engrossed by this history of the unstoppable, pioneer feminist Abbott sisters.
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Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

Part 1. A Prairie Childhood

1. Children of the Western Plains

2. Some Family Traditions: Abolition and the Civil War

3. Democracy on the High Plains

4. Our Prairie Home

5. The Rights of the Indian

6. The Rights of Women

7. Father’s Law Office

8. A Home of Law and Politics

9. The Children’s Day

10. Books in the Prairie Days

11. Grace and the Rights of Children

12. The Treeless Plains

13. The End of the Beginning

Part 2. The Hull House Years

Preface

14. Life at Hull House

15. Protecting Immigrant Arrivals

16. The Lost Immigrant Girls

17. The Children of Immigrants

18. Protecting Workers: Immigrants and Women

19. A Fair Deal: Banks and Courts

20. The “New Immigration”

21. Immigration at the Source

22. The Massachusetts Commission on Immigration

23. A Pacifist in the First World War

24. Julius Rosenwald

25. Votes for Women

26. The Children’s Bureau

27. The First Child Labor Law

28. The Tragedy of “Hammer v. Dagenhart”

29. Children and the War

30. Back to Chicago

Part 3. The Crusade for Children

31. The New Chief

32. The First Year

33. The Maternity Bill: A Matter of Life and Death

34. The Supreme Court and the Radio

35. The Children’s Amendment

36. Madame President

37. The Battle Continues

38. Publications and Politics

39. Geneva

40. Extending the Act

41. 1929

42. Grace Abbott for the Cabinet

43. The White House Conference

44. Conversion by Exigency

45. First Essentials

46. The Undying Fire

Acknowledgments

Appendix. The Undying Fire

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