212 Pages
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Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
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Routledge
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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 United States federal agency. Throughout her life, Lathrop challenged the social norms of the time and became... Read more
Lives of American Women , Series Editor’s Foreword , Introduction , 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 , Conclusion , Primary Sources , Study Questions
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