Julia Lathrop social service and progressive government /
Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women's proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau, created in 1912 to promote child welfare, she was the first woman to head a Un...
| Main Author: | Cohen, Miriam, 1950- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder, Colorado :
Westview Press,
[2017]
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 195 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 22 cm. |
| Series: |
Lives of American women.
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Table of Contents:
- Childhood and education at Vassar: old traditions and new paths
- "J. Lathrop's here!" Single womanhood and a new life at Hull House
- Social research and progressive government
- Juvenile justice, immigrant aid
- "Chief"
- Saving children, helping mothers
- The making of the Maternity and Infancy Act, 1921
- Retirement and keeping on.