social work

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• 8/7/2022
  

  A Primary Source Shows the Connection Between 1920s Flappers and Social Media Youth Organizers Today

  by Jason Ulysses Rose

  While youth are often dismissed as frivolous, their media often reveal engagement, creativity, and wisdom that ther political elders would be wise to heed – in the 1920s as today. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Exponent
  3/9/2020
  

  Women’s History Month Spotlight: Maimie Pinzer

  According to historian Melissa R. Klapper, Pinzer’s story has been of great interest to scholars of gender and working-class women because her letters are among the only firsthand accounts of prostitution during the early 20th century. “She was also quite self-aware about the role that gender norms and limitations on women, especially economic, had played in her life.”

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• 7/21/19
  

  Jane Addams and Lillian Wald: Imagining Social Justice from the Outside

  by Michael Bronski

  Addams and Wald were women who loved other women and that these relationships – as well as the female friendship networks in which they were involved – were profoundly instrumental to their vision of social justice that changed America.