One could illustrate in many ways a woman’s simplest duty, one would say is to keep her house clean and wholesome and to feed her children properly. There is no doubt, however, that many women today are failing properly to discharge their duties to their own families and households simply because they fail to see that as the city develops it is necessary that woman shall extend her sense of responsibility to many things outside of her own home if only in order to preserve the home in its entirety. It is impossible to imagine the time when her duty there shall be ended or to forecast any social change which shall ever release her from that paramount obligation.
We have been accustomed for many generations to think of woman’s place as being entirely within the walls of her own household. Woman’s Conscience and Social Amelioration, Jane Addams, 1908 On 7 March 2020, join panelists Chris Burkett (Ashland University), Jennifer Keene (Chapman University), and Mack Mariani (Xavier University) to explore the life, ideas, letters, and impact of Jane Addams.īelow, you’ll find selected passages from each of the readings to be discussed - we hope these will inspire you to read more in each text in order to better understand Addams’s work. Prominent scholars will discuss individuals who made significant social, cultural, or political contributions to the American identity.
The theme of this year’s Teaching American History Saturday webinars is American Minds.