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Women's Part in This New World, May 16, 1919

Addams discusses the role of American women as economic factors in the post-World War I global economy.

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Women's Part in this New World, April 10, 1919

Addams explores the role that American women will have in rebuilding the world and the economy.

Articles Economics Food Shortages Labor World War I

Women's Clubs and Public Policies, June 10, 1914

Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role of women's clubs in shaping public policies.

Lectures Philanthropy Politics Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Women's Club and Public Policies, June 10, 1914

Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role women's clubs has and can further have in shaping policies.

Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Women in International Relations, March 10, 1927 (summary)

Addams speaks before the Gulf Coast Chapter of the American Association of University Women on the role that women take in other parts of the world.

Lectures Peace Women

Women Improving in Politics, March 7, 1926

Addams asserts that women have slowly been taking advantage of their enfranchisement and that prohibition has not proved to be a failure.

Prohibition Temperance Woman Suffrage Writings

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Women and Democracy, October 4, 1912 (excerpts and summary)

Addams speaks on woman suffrage at a meeting in Potage, Wisconsin. She gave the same speech in Janesvile.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Woman's Suffrage and the Preservation of the Home, May 1909

Addams argues women's need for the vote so that they can perform their duties to family and the nation.

Hull-House Immigrants Public Health Woman Suffrage

Woman's Special Training for Peacemaking, May 4, 1909

Addams argues that it is time for women to work in groups and advocate for causes that are important to them, like peace. Addams gave this address at the National Peace Congress in Chicago. This version was published in the proceedings.

Conferences Peace Women's Rights

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

In this address, delivered for the Merrick Lectures, 1907-8, Addams describes the difficulty immigrant women face as they try to assimilate into American life.

Child Labor Hull-House Immigrants Industry Labor Public Health Women's Rights

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

In this address, delivered for the Merrick Lectures, Addams speaks about the difficulty of assimilation into American life for immigrant women.

Child Labor Immigrants Industry Labor Woman Suffrage

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Woman as a Citizen, January 21, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to club women on their responsibilities as citizens to become involved in international affairs.

Food Shortages Lectures Social Welfare

Woman and the State, February 2-14, 1911

Addams gave this lecture at least two times; once at the February 2 meeting of the New York City Women's Political Union, and again on February 14 at the Boston School Voters' League. In the lecture, she discusses the philosophical relationship between women and the State and argues for the value of women in government, leading to the importance of woman suffrage. She may have also delivered a version of this lecture in Chicago on Dec. 8, 1910, to the Fortnightly Club.

Child Labor Child Welfare Education Politics Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Wolves That Prey on Women, September 29, 1907

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money. This column appeared with slight variations in a number of newspapers between 1907-1910.

Finances

Wolves That Prey On Women, July 16, 1910

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money.

Business Finance Women's Rights

Wolves That Prey on Women, January 9, 1908

Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money. This is a reprint of an article first published in 1907.

Business Finances Gender Roles Women's Rights

William I. Thomas to Jane Addams, December 12, 1911

Thomas follows up on a previous meeting with Addams at which they discussed her research and writing about prostitution. Thomas contradicts Addams' assertion that prostitution is a product of more advanced societies.

Woman Suffrage

Why Women Should Vote, March 30, 1911

In the final installment of "Why Women Should Vote," Addams highlights why women need the ballot and argues that woman suffrage is centuries overdue and necessary for women to protect themselves.

Civil Rights Gender Roles Woman Suffrage

Why Women Should Vote, January 25, 1912

Addams connects woman suffrage with social work, arguing that women's voices are necessary for the improvement of social and labor conditions and that all -- social workers and housewives -- have a stake in making laws, which protect women, children, and families. Addams likely gave this speech on multiple occasions. This speech was also published in the Chicago Tribune on February 4, 1912.

Consumerism Education Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage

Why Women Should Vote, February 4, 1912 (excerpt)

The Chicago Tribune published an excerpted version of Addams' speech on woman suffrage in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 23, 1912.

Labor Lectures Politics Social Reform Woman Suffrage

Why Women Are Concerned with the Larger Citizenship: Philanthropy and Politics, 1913

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Charity Juvenile Delinquency Labor Lectures Poverty Public Health Recreation Settlements Social Welfare

Why Girls Go Wrong, September 1907

Addams explores the lack of opportunities, education and home life that leads young women into trouble.

Children Crime Immigrants Poverty

What Women Might Accomplish with the Franchise (extract), October 21, 1911

An excerpt from Addams' address to the National American Woman Suffrage Association, on October 21, 1911, in Louisville, Kentucky, arguing that the desire for woman suffrage comes from women's desires for better social conditions.

Lectures Legislation Woman Suffrage

What the Progressive Party Means to Women, October 21, 1912

Addams argues that women's interests coincide with the work the Progressive Party is doing and that they should support it.

Government Progressive Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

War's Debasement of Women, May 2, 1915

An interview with Addams, by Marshall, right before she leaves for the The Hague peace conference. In this interview Addams discusses the importance of the conference and of women's peace movements.

Internationalism Military Patriotism Peace War Writings

War Times Challenging Woman's Traditions, August 5, 1916

Addams explores women's responses to war, looking at its costs in terms of lives and social welfare, and questions of patriotism.

Government Internationalism Military Patriotism Peace World War I

War and Society, March 7, 1915

Addams discusses women's roles during war at Smith College.

Lectures War World War I

War and Social Service, March 8, 1915 (excerpt)

Addams discusses neutrality and why women were best suited to protest against war at Radcliffe College.

Unwed Mothers-Modern Youth, March 24, 1927

Addams, as told to the Newspaper Enterprise Association, discusses the murder of unwed mother Rosa Stoble and argues for love and sympathy rather than punishment and stigma. This article was syndicated and published in many newspapers in March and April.

Child Welfare Crime Morality Sex Reform Women Youth

Tribute to Theodore Parker, November 17, 1910

Addams pays tribute to Theodore Parker at a Memorial Banquet in Chicago, where she praised his anti-slavery work and support of black suffrage, blamed his generation for not extending suffrage to women, and surmised that Parker would have ultimately supported the franchise for women had he lived longer.

Abolition Death Praise Religion Woman Suffrage

The World's Food Supply and Woman's Obligation, May 3, 1918

Addams discusses changes in the government's view about the common good that have translated into effort to bring food security to larger populations. She features the efforts women have made to conserve food. The speech was given at the General Federation of Women's Clubs Conference.

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The World's Food Supply and Woman's Obligation, May 3, 1918

Addams discusses changes in the government's view about the common good that have translated into effort to bring food security to larger populations. She features the efforts of women to conserve food.

England Food Conservation Food Shortages Foreign Policy France Italy Lectures Romania Russia Social Welfare World War I

The World's Food Supply and Woman's Obligation, May 3, 1918

Addams discusses changes in the government's view about the common good that have translated into effort to bring food security to larger populations. She features the efforts women have made to conserve food. The speech was given at the General Federation of Women's Clubs Conference.

Agriculture England Food Conservation Food Shortages Foreign Policy France Italy Lectures Romania Russia Social Welfare World War I

The World's Food Supply and Woman's Obligation, May 3, 1918

Addams discusses changes in the government's view about the common good that have translated into effort to bring food security to larger populations.

England Food Conservation Food Shortages France Help!Italy Lectures Romania Russia Social Welfare World War I

The Working Woman and the Ballot, April 1908

Addams gives arguments for woman's suffrage, stressing that working class need it to be able to control some aspects of their lives.

Gender Roles Labor Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Whole Duty of Man, June 3, 1906

Addams argues that strict gender roles for mothers and fathers are not useful.

Gender Roles Social Reform

The Subtle Problems of Charity, February 1899

Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

Charity Labor Poverty Social Work

The Responsibilities and Duties of Women toward the Peace Movement, October 5, 1904

Addams discussed women's role in the peace movement at the Universal Peace Conference in Boston.

Lectures Peace

The Relation of Women to Industry and Social Legislation (excerpt), March 22, 1908 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams' March 22 speech at Faneuil Hall to the Boston Equal Suffrage Association and the Women's Trade Union League on the changes in women's work brought about by factory work.

Education Germany Immigrants Labor Lectures Legislation Public Health Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Relation of Club Women to Social Problems, April 15, 1905 (excerpt)

In a speech before the Chicago Women's Association. Addams complains that college women are disinclined toward philanthropy.

Education Gender Roles Lectures Philanthropy Social Reform

The Reaction of Simple Women to Trade Union Propaganda, July 1, 1916

Addams tells the story of two immigrant women's difficulties making enough to earn a living, their experiences with unions, and poverty.

Gender Roles Immigrants Labor Philanthropy Social Welfare Social Work Writings

The Progressive Party and Woman Suffrage, September 1912

Addams argues for women's increased participation in politics and defends her decision to back a political party. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

Philanthropy Politics Woman Suffrage

The Progressive Party and Social Legislation, September 18, 1912

Addams reports on the Progressive Party Convention, discussing how items were added to its platform, particularly labor and military planks, and her dismay about the conventions unjust treatment of African-Americans. This is one of a series of articles she prepared as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

African-Americans Government Labor Legislation Memberships Military Patriotism Peace Politics Public Health Racism War Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Progressive Party and Safeguards for Working Girls, August-September, 1912

Addams lays out the Progressive Party's pledge to working women--the prohibition of night work, the institution of the eight-hour day, and a minimum wage in sweated industry. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association for the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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