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The long road of woman's memory

Chapter 13: Twenty Years at Hull-House
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A sequence of essays and reported conversations explores how women's recollections reshape personal and social life. Memory is shown to soften and transmute hardship into consoling narrative while simultaneously selecting and amplifying experiences that unsettle conventions, inform labor and community relations, and oppose the pressures of war. Drawing on community encounters and wartime observations, the work traces memory's dual function of comforting individuals and gradually assembling collective norms, and ends with a reflective account of interpretative memory as a practical guide for understanding experience and prompting reform.

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“Its pages are remarkably—we were about to say refreshingly—free from the customary academic limitations ...; in fact, are the result of actual experience in hand-to-hand contact with social problems.... No more truthful description, for example, of the ‘boss’ as he thrives to-day in our great cities has ever been written than is contained in Miss Addams’s chapter on ‘Political Reform.’... The same thing may be said of the book in regard to the presentation of social and economic facts.”—Review of Reviews.

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Jane Addams’s work at Hull-House is known throughout the civilized world. In the present volume she tells of her endeavors and of their success—of the beginning of Hull-House, of its growth and its present influence. For every one at all interested in the improvement of our cities, in the moral education of those who are forced to spend much of their time on the streets or in cheap places of amusement—“Twenty Years at Hull-House” will be a volume of more than ordinary interest and value.

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A protest against the practice of every large city of turning over to commercialism practically all the provisions for public recreation, leaving it possible for private greed to starve or demoralize the nature of youth.


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