1st Edition

Caroline Bartlett Crane and Progressive Reform Social Housekeeping As Sociology

By Linda J. Rynbrandt Copyright 1999
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Caroline Bartlett Crane’s robust vision of women’s work and her national impact as America’s Housekeeper highlights the gendered nature of being a sociologist, a woman, and doing sociology. Contemporary sociologists are disconnected from their female predecessors. Like Sisyphus, each generation of sociologists is condemned to push the boulder of women’s knowledge and experience back to the top of... Read more
Identity and Legacy: Recurring Questions, Feminist, Sociologist, Race and Class, Who Was Caroline Bartlett Crane and Why Does She Matter Today? Chapter I: Lost Women in Social Thought and Action, Introduction, Invisible Women in Sociology and Social Reform, Theoretical/Methodological Frame for Text, Feminist Debates: Epistemology/Methodology, Trends and Debates in Feminist Theory, Gender, Theory and Practice, History and Sociology, Archival Research, Method, Epilogue Chapter 2: The Life and Times of Caroline Bartlett Crane, Introduction, Caroline Bartlett Crane, The Progressive Era, Twice-Told Tales, Chapter 3: Salvation, Sanitation and the Social Gospel, Sociology, The Social Gospel and Sociology: Rationale for Reform, Where Are the Women? Debates and Dilemmas in Early Sociology, The Social Construction of Sociology, Legacy, Caroline Bartlett Crane, The People’s Church, Crane and the University of Chicago Sociology, The Institutional Church, Sociology and Social Control, From Thought to Action, Chapter 4: Images, Ideology and Networks in Progressive, Reform, Introduction, Women in Municipal Sanitation, Caroline Bartlett Crane and the Ladies of the Club, Women’s Clubs, A Woman’s Place is in the Home, Chapter 5: America’s Housekeeper Fights for Pure Food, Chapter 6: Building the Progressive Dream: Designs for Reform Chapter 7: Public Visions and Private Nightmares, Chapter 8: Conclusion: Beyond Women Lost and Found

Biography

Linda J. Rynbrandt (Author)