Feminist Pragmatism and Social Rights

Judy D. Whipps

doi:10.5771/9781666943238

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Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-4322-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-4323-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 332
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 24
1. 1. Social Rights and Individual Rights No access
  2. Revising the Social Contract and Classical Liberalism No access
  3. 1. The Gilded Age and Laissez-Faire Economics No access
    2. The Nadir No access
  4. 1. Evolutionary Democracy No access
    2. Social Ethics No access
    3. A New View of the Individual No access
    4. Social Rights and the Social Good No access
    5. Early Legislative Activism No access
    6. Pluralism: Immigrants and African Americans No access
    7. Critique of Capitalism No access
  5. Addams’s Continuing Political Influence No access
  6. Notes No access
2. 1. Women’s Clubs No access
  2. 1. The Creation of the First Juvenile Court No access
    2. Evolving Administrative Competence No access
    3. Social Science No access
    4. Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy No access
    5. Children’s Bureau No access
  3. Notes No access
3. 1. 1. Marxism No access
    2. Early Work at Hull House No access
    3. Collaborations with Labor Unions No access
    4. Integrating Pragmatism and a Feminist Approach to Social Science No access
    5. New York: The National Consumers League No access
  2. 1. Pushback: Laissez-Faire Constitutionalism No access
    2. Government as Protector of the People No access
    3. Child Labor and Children of Color No access
  3. Anti-Racism No access
  4. Creation of the Children’s Bureau No access
  5. Mentoring and Advocacy No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. The Nadir of Race Relations and Jim Crow Segregation No access
  2. African American Women’s Clubs No access
  3. Feminism and Pragmatism No access
  4. African American Women Activists No access
  5. Fannie Barrier Williams No access
  6. 1. Terrell and African American Women’s Clubs No access
    2. Anti-Lynching Activism No access
    3. Feminism, Suffrage, and the ERA No access
    4. Peace Work No access
  7. 1. Bethune’s Pragmatism No access
    2. Bethune’s Working Methods No access
  8. Engaging the World No access
  9. Notes No access
5. 1. 1. Social Protections for Immigrants: A Moral Duty No access
    2. Social Rights in an Evolving Democracy No access
    3. The Inadequacy of Philanthropy No access
    4. Adjustment, Not Assimilation, as a Source of Cultural Growth No access
  2. 1. African American Great Migration No access
    2. Immigrants’ Role in an Evolving, Diverse Democracy No access
  3. State Protections for Vulnerable Populations No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. The Red Scare: 1917–1920 No access
  2. Continued Attacks on African Americans No access
  3. The “Tepid” Reforms of the 1920s No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Early Feminist Pragmatist International Connections No access
  2. 1. Socialism and Industrial Reform No access
    2. Anti-Racism: A Foundation for International Pluralism and Immigration Support No access
    3. Fighting against Racism No access
  3. Peace Activism and the 1915 Congress at The Hague No access
  4. The 1920s: Fighting Nationalism and Conformity No access
  5. WILPF and Race No access
  6. 1. Goodwill No access
    2. Planetary Civilization but not World Government No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. 1. Expanding Its Reach No access
    2. Creating Sheppard-Towner: Programs for Infant and Maternal Health No access
  2. 1. Sheppard-Towner: Breaking New Ground No access
    2. Opposition to the Children’s Bureau and Sheppard-Towner Act No access
  3. The Fight against Child Labor No access
  4. Children’s Amendment No access
  5. The Children’s Bureau in the 1930s No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Suffrage Movements Before and After 1920 No access
  2. 1. Minimum Wage and Maximum Hours Laws No access
    2. The Brandeis Brief and Muller v. Oregon No access
    3. Equal Pay for Equal Work No access
  3. 1. 1. Adkins v. Children’s Hospital (1923) No access
  4. Notes No access
5. 1. The Crisis of the Great Depression No access
  2. 1. Chicago and Hull House No access
    2. Philadelphia No access
    3. New York and National Consumers Leagues No access
    4. 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire No access
    5. Industrial Reform in New York No access
  3. 1. Women’s Campaigns to Nominate Perkins No access
  4. 1. Negotiating Being Female and Powerful in Washington No access
    2. The New Deal: An Experimental Approach No access
  5. 1. The 1936 Walsh–Healey Act No access
    2. Fair Labor Standards Act No access
  6. Opposition to Perkins: Immigration and Impeachment No access
  7. 1. Bethune and the Roosevelts No access
  8. Notes No access
1. Balch, Perkins, Bethune, and Terrell: Activism in the 1940s and 1950s No access
2. Eleanor Roosevelt and Social Rights Globally No access
3. Lasting Impact No access
4. Impact on Feminism and Philosophy Today No access
5. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 299 - 318
Index No access Pages 319 - 330
About the Author No access Pages 331 - 332