Character Is Destiny: The Autobiography of Alice Salomon

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University of Michigan Press, 2004 M01 20 - 264 páginas

In her autobiography, the remarkable feminist and social worker Alice Salomon recounts her transition in the 1890s from privileged idleness to energetic engagement in solving social problems. Salomon took the lead in establishing the profession of social work, and built a career as a social reformer, activist, and educator. A prolific author, Salomon also played a key role in the transatlantic dialogue between German and American feminists in the early twentieth century. Her narrative concludes with the account of her expulsion from Germany by the Nazis in 1937.
Salomon's formative influence on the field of social work makes her story crucial for the history of the discipline. This work will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the feminist and socialist movements or the political and social history of twentieth-century Germany. The volume also includes several of Salomon's essays on social work and women's issues, along with photographs of Salomon, her students, and her colleagues.
Andrew Lees is Professor and Chair of the History Department at Rutgers University, Camden.
 

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LondonBerlin
24
The School for Social Work
68
Officer of the International
81
Brief Harvest before the Storm
89
The Evidence of Things Not Seen 1914
101
In the War Office 19171919
112
Years of Chaos
121
My Foreign Affairs
133
Then Came
159
The Golden Ring of Friendship
165
The Mystery of Individual Adjustments
181
The Strong and the Weak
201
The Pastors Martin Niemöller
214
Appendix A The Significance of the Womens Movement
231
Preface to an Early Version
247
Derechos de autor

Social Reconstruction
150

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Página 249 - On maternalism, see Seth Koven and Sonya Michel, eds., Mothers of a New World: Maternalist Politics and the Origins of Welfare States (New York: Routledge, 1993), 2; Molly Ladd-Taylor, Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994), 3.
Página 249 - Harriet Pass Freidenreich, Female, Jewish, Educated: The Lives of Central European University Women (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002), p.

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Andrew Lees is Professor and Chair in the Department of History at Rutgers University, Camden

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