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Embracing Gendered Space: How Women Manipulated the Settlement Home to Engage in Progressive-Era Politics

Schumann, Beca R
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1617881736594534

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2021, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Political Science (Arts and Sciences).
This research aims to insert the theory of gendered space into the narrative history of the American settlement movement by analyzing how settlement residents manipulated private spaces to engage in Progressive-Era politics. Hull House, the first settlement home, is used as a case study to demonstrate how female settlement residents utilized the settlement home as a hybrid public-private space to legitimize their social reform activities in urban areas. By embracing gendered spaces and cultural feminist beliefs about the natural role of women, settlement residents were able to effectively bargain for a more active role and voice in political life. Despite the social and political gains female settlement residents were able to achieve, their approach has been widely criticized by feminist scholars, since the embracing of gendered spaces and essentialist female traits continues to inhibit women from breaking free from structural forms of patriarchy.
Judith Grant (Advisor)
DeLysa Burnier (Committee Member)
Julie White (Committee Member)
116 p.
Political Science; Womens Studies
First-wave feminism; gendered space; Jane Addams; Settlement home; settlement movement; public sphere; home; woman; feminism

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  • Schumann, B. R. (2021). Embracing Gendered Space: How Women Manipulated the Settlement Home to Engage in Progressive-Era Politics [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1617881736594534

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Schumann, Beca. Embracing Gendered Space: How Women Manipulated the Settlement Home to Engage in Progressive-Era Politics. 2021. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1617881736594534.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Schumann, Beca. "Embracing Gendered Space: How Women Manipulated the Settlement Home to Engage in Progressive-Era Politics." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1617881736594534

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