social work

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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.