Jane addams why women should vote. Why Women Should Vote, March 30, 1911 · Jane Addams Digital Edition 2019-03-05
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She kind of avoids saying whether she thinks that or not, and talks about women's experiences that build those skills and build those characteristics. In closing, may I recapitulate that if woman would fulfill her traditional responsibility to her own children; if she would educate and protect from danger factory children who must find their recreation on the street; if she would bring the cultural forces to bear upon our materialistic civilization; and if she would do it all with the dignity and directness fitting one who carries on her immemorial duties, then she must bring herself to the use of the ballot -- that latest implement for self-government. The women's movement was a crucial part of Progressivism, and one of its most pressing questions was how women could attain equality with men and reform a society dominated by them. One could illustrate in many ways. Jane Addams also became involved in wider efforts for social reform, including housing and sanitation issues, factory inspection, rights of immigrants, women and children, pacifism and the 8-hour day. Instead women in Chicago have been selling food stuffs in open air where they were infested with dust and germs causing quite a few diseases particularly to children.
Why Women Should Vote, January 1910 · Jane Addams Digital Edition
Jane Addams supported the Progressive Party in the early 1900s. Views on Prostitution: She wrote a book on prostitution. Certainly the women of modern industry need the suffrage for their own protection as much as the freed slaves needed it for theirs, and the men who secured the franchise for the negro could certainly have done it for women. Oxford University Press: London, 1973. The Juvenile Court Committee, made up largely of women, paid the salaries of the probation officers connected with the court for the first six years of its existence, and after the salaries were cared for by the county the same organization turned itself into a Juvenile Protective League, and through a score of paid officers are doing valiant service in minimizing some of the dangers of city life which boys and girls encounter.
I found my friend much disturbed. Remaining half-titles are therefore of interest to collectors. In Chicago just now women ought to have the municipal vote in order to secure clean milk for tenement house babies; we need the county vote in order to guard and extend the uses of the Juvenile Court; we ought to have the state vote in order to extend the provisions of the child labor law to young boys and even little girls who deliver messages and then papers in the red light district into all hours of the night; we need the federal vote in order to secure a children's bureau which shall enable the nation itself to deal adequately with its under-nourished and illiterate children in whatsoever state they may be found. She is also showing how the whole society is not concerned with specific issues that affect women and children. Her basement will not be dry, her stairways will not be fireproof, her house will not be provided with sufficient windows to give light and air, nor will it be equipped with sanitary plumbing, unless the Public Works Department sends inspectors who constantly insist that these elementary decencies be provided. Lack of collaboration or due to the fact that women were not given rights to participate in public administration diminished the collaboration between the two and condition of neighborhood deteriorated. Some of them came to Hull-House one day to talk over the possibility of a public wash-house.
New York: Infobase Pub, 2010. Philanthropy and Social Progress was her first book. Modern History Sourcebook by Paul Halsall, 1999 Some women use their beauty and talent to manipulate men to get what they want or to get some sort of advantage. While much older, wood engravings enjoyed an important renaissance in the late eighteenth century through Thomas Bewick and continued in popularity thorugh the nineteenth century. How does what she says differ from other contemporary arguments for suffrage, and how is it the same? If women have in any sense been responsible for the gentler side of life which softens and blurs some of its harsher conditions, may they not have a duty to perform in our American cities? In her book, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Addams asserted that with a steady salary women would not become prostitutes: if the economic needs of women were met, they would not resort to prostitution. But even this simple obligation cannot be effectively carried out without some form of social organization as the mothers' school clubs and mothers' congresses testify, and to which the most conservative women belong because they feel the need of wider reading and discussion concerning the many problems of childhood. For example, she argues the roles of women in education are diverse, yet there was not singly woman who have been elected in school boards.
Can be tooled in gilt or blind. In a complex community like the modern city all points of view need to be represented; the resultants of diverse experiences need to be pooled if the community would make for sane and balanced progress. But even this simple obligation cannot be effectively carried out without some form of social organization, as the mothers' school clubs and mothers' congresses testify, and to which the most conservative women belong because they feel the need of wider reading and discussion concerning the many problems of childhood. The Editor of The Ladies' Home Journal. May we not fairly say that American women need this implement in order to preserve the home? Addams comes at it from a different perspective - we need to be able to influence the world in which we live as a matter of common sense not as a moral edict as Stanton believes. Her idleness depressed her; she wanted to be useful and to have a greater purpose in life.
She gives various situation which had incredibly affected the community because of lack of participation of women. Is that dreariness in city life, that lack of domesticity which the humblest farm dwelling presents, due to a withdrawal of one of the naturally co-operating forces? The youth in society bring about social change, innovation, and progress. In 1912, Jane Addams campaigned for the Progressive Party and its presidential candidate, Teddy Roosevelt. Occasionally the text of a book will be put into a specialized book press and painted, often with a scene from the book or a landscape, so that the painting is invisible when the book is closed but visible when somebody bends the text and fans the pages—known as a fore-edge painting. In a speech in St. That she has not done so is doubtless due to the fact that her conscience is slow to recognize any obligation outside of her own family circle, and because she was so absorbed in her own household that she failed to see what the conditions outside actually were.
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In the meantime, while we give our energies toward securing the mere mechanics of the ballot, important affairs must be pushed aside and industrial conditions allowed to grow worse. And I have taught high school myself, and I taught it at a very high level and found that students were more interested than they were when I tried to keep it at a low level in order to make sure I wasn't moving too fast or using too many big words. I think bringing students to an appreciation of that is not only important, but it's what makes it interesting for them, too. To Those of My Readers Who Would Admit that although woman has no right to shirk her old obligations, that all of these measures could be secured more easily through her influence upon the men of her family than through the direct use of the ballot, I should like to tell a little story. My friend said that for many years she had suspected that women could influence men only in regard to those things in which men were not deeply concerned, but when it came to persuading a man to a woman's view in affairs of politics or business it was absolutely useless. The more extensively the modern city endeavors on the one hand to control and on the other hand to provide recreational facilities for its young people, the more necessary it is that women should assist in their direction and extension.
She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, among the first students to take a course of study equivalent to that of men at other institutions. Sometimes refers to a volume given by a notable donor. If it would meet fairly each problem as it arises, whether it be connected with a freight tunnel having to do largely with business men, or with the increasing death rate among children under five years of age, a problem in which women are vitally concerned, or with the question of more adequate streetcar transfers, in which both men and women might be said to be equally interested, it must not ignore the judgments of its entire adult population. Social Networks And Social Movements. Ever since steam power has been applied to the processes of weaving and spinning woman's traditional work has been carried on largely outside of the home.
