"Neither a personal nor a private enterprise": The college settlements association, 1887-1917
M. Spinelli. Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, PhD Thesis, (1995)
Abstract
Women presided over the North American settlement-house movement since its inception in the late 1880s. They served as a majority of its workers and emerged as some of its most celebrated leaders. Despite women's success within the movement, historians have traditionally grounded American settlement initiative within a framework of British social thought. Most studies of American settlement work begin with the Christian Socialist rhetoric of John Ruskin and Frederick Denison Maurice. Such an analysis ignores a history of American women's relevant reform work that antedated and foreshadowed English settlement work. This thesis, a study of the College Settlements Association, argues that the American settlement movement rooted itself in a culture of female association building that pervaded the latter half of the nineteenth century. This culture provided early settlement leaders with an already-present infrastructure and social vision on which to build a movement.
%0 Thesis
%1 spinelli_neither_1995
%A Spinelli, Michelle A.
%C Bronxville, NY
%D 1995
%K HISTORY, STATES, STUDIES UNITED WOMEN'S
%T "Neither a personal nor a private enterprise": The college settlements association, 1887-1917
%X Women presided over the North American settlement-house movement since its inception in the late 1880s. They served as a majority of its workers and emerged as some of its most celebrated leaders. Despite women's success within the movement, historians have traditionally grounded American settlement initiative within a framework of British social thought. Most studies of American settlement work begin with the Christian Socialist rhetoric of John Ruskin and Frederick Denison Maurice. Such an analysis ignores a history of American women's relevant reform work that antedated and foreshadowed English settlement work. This thesis, a study of the College Settlements Association, argues that the American settlement movement rooted itself in a culture of female association building that pervaded the latter half of the nineteenth century. This culture provided early settlement leaders with an already-present infrastructure and social vision on which to build a movement.
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abstract = {Women presided over the North American settlement-house movement since its inception in the late 1880s. They served as a majority of its workers and emerged as some of its most celebrated leaders. Despite women's success within the movement, historians have traditionally grounded American settlement initiative within a framework of British social thought. Most studies of American settlement work begin with the Christian Socialist rhetoric of John Ruskin and Frederick Denison Maurice. Such an analysis ignores a history of American women's relevant reform work that antedated and foreshadowed English settlement work. This thesis, a study of the College Settlements Association, argues that the American settlement movement rooted itself in a culture of female association building that pervaded the latter half of the nineteenth century. This culture provided early settlement leaders with an already-present infrastructure and social vision on which to build a movement.},
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shorttitle = {"{Neither} a personal nor a private enterprise": {The} college settlements association, 1887-1917},
timestamp = {2018-06-19T15:20:34.000+0200},
title = {"{Neither} a personal nor a private enterprise": {The} college settlements association, 1887-1917},
type = {{PhD} {Thesis}},
year = 1995
}