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In class we spoke some of this issue that the “New Woman” faced about what to do after leaving college. Here I found what Jane Addams and Ellen Starr do very admirable, such as creating the famous Hall House. In today’s world you don’t see many women, especially white, moving into “bad” parts of cities to truly help the people there. But these women I found fearless of being in Chicago such as the incident with them leaving the side door left open and “were much pleased in the morning to find that we possessed a fine illustration of the honesty and kindliness of our new neighbors,” (pg. 36). I would have been so upset that I had risked my home and self, just being in a new place for the first night is nerve-racking, but leaving a door open would make me even more paranoid. These women were actually asked to “wash the newborn babies, and to prepare the dead for burial, to nurse the sick, and to ‘mind the children’,” (pg. 36). Where there no others to do these tasks, such as a mortician, hospital, or baby-sitters? I know to remember that these people were of the poorest of the city, but these women were asked to prepare the dead, really? Ew.---Morgan M. | In class we spoke some of this issue that the “New Woman” faced about what to do after leaving college. Here I found what Jane Addams and Ellen Starr do very admirable, such as creating the famous Hall House. In today’s world you don’t see many women, especially white, moving into “bad” parts of cities to truly help the people there. But these women I found fearless of being in Chicago such as the incident with them leaving the side door left open and “were much pleased in the morning to find that we possessed a fine illustration of the honesty and kindliness of our new neighbors,” (pg. 36). I would have been so upset that I had risked my home and self, just being in a new place for the first night is nerve-racking, but leaving a door open would make me even more paranoid. These women were actually asked to “wash the newborn babies, and to prepare the dead for burial, to nurse the sick, and to ‘mind the children’,” (pg. 36). Where there no others to do these tasks, such as a mortician, hospital, or baby-sitters? I know to remember that these people were of the poorest of the city, but these women were asked to prepare the dead, really? Ew.---Morgan M. | ||
| − | I feel like the concept of “after college, what?” (Jane Addams, MAW p. 34) is a universal question. Albeit when Addams was speaking, there were not many other higher position opportunities available for women after college, but in today’s society most students face the same dilemma regardless of gender, race and sex. It is difficult to find professional work after graduating college and sometimes it can take years to finally find your own place in the world. From then until now not much has changed in that department. –jmarshal | + | I feel like the concept of “after college, what?” (Jane Addams, MAW p. 34) is a universal question. Albeit when Addams was speaking, there were not many other higher position opportunities available for women after college, but in today’s society most students face the same dilemma regardless of gender, race and sex. It is difficult to find professional work after graduating college and sometimes it can take years to finally find your own place in the world. From then until now not much has changed in that department. –jmarshal |
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| + | This doesn't really count as a comment but I've been to Hull House. It was rather smaller than I expected... I'm kind of amazed that the women of Hull House were able to accomplish so much in such a tiny space and with limited resources! --Sarah Smethurst | ||
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'''Alice Hamilton explores the dangerous trades (1943)''' | '''Alice Hamilton explores the dangerous trades (1943)''' | ||
