088: Ep84 – Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams’s Legacy

In episode 84 of Philosophy Bakes Bread, Eric Thomas Weber and Anthony Cashio interview Dr. Patricia Shields on “Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams’s Legacy.”

Dr. Shields is editor of editor of Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Work, and Public Administration, published in 2017. She is also Professor of Political Science at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas, and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Armed Forces and Society, the leading peer-reviewed journal on civil-military relations. In addition, Pat has received many awards for excellence in teaching such as the National Association for Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award (2002), The Texas State Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001), the Texas State Faculty Senate, Everette Swinney Teaching Award (2010) as well as the Professor of the Year Award from the Central Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (2006).

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Notes

1. Patricia Shields’s book on Jane Addams.
2. YouTube video sponsored by the Journal of Public Integrity on Jane Addams’s social ethics.
3. Addams, J. (1880). Bread Givers. Rockford Daily Register.
4. Addams, J. (1902). Democracy and Social Ethics. New York: MacMillan.
5. Addams, J. (1907). Newer Ideals of Peace. New York: MacMillan.
6. Addams, J. (1913). If men were seeking the franchise. Ladies Home Journal, vol. 30 (June).
7. Addams, J. (1922). Peace and Bread in Times of War. New York: MacMillan.
8. Addams, L. Balch, E. G., & Hanilton, A. (1915/2003) Women at the Hague: The International Congress of Women and its Results. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
9. Hamington, M. (2009). The Social Philosophy of Jane Addams. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
10. Haslanger, S. (2017). Jane Addams’s “Women and Public Housekeeping. In Schliesser, E. (Ed.) Ten Neglected Classics of Philosophy. Cambridge: Oxford University Press.
11. Rissler, G. and Shields, Patricia (2018). Positive Peace – a necessary touchstone for Public Administration, Administrative Theory and Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1080/10841806.2018.1479549.
12. Seigfried, C. (1996). Pragmatism and feminism: Reweaving the Social Fabric. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
13. Shields, P., & Soeters, J. (2017). Peaceweaving: Jane Addams, positive peace, and Public Administration. American Review of Public Administration, 47(3), 323–339.
14. Shields, P.  (ed.) (2017). Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy Sociology, Social Work and Public Administration. New York: Springer.
15. Shields, P. (2017). Limits of Negative Peace, Faces of Positive Peace. Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, 47(3), 1–12.
16. Shields, P. (2006). Democracy and the Social Ethics of Jane Addams: A Vision for Public Administration. Administrative Theory and Praxis, 28, 418–443.
17. YouTube video on Jane Addams and her Social Ethics, sponsored by the journal Public Integrity, and filmed in March 2018.

You Tell Me!

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“How do you suggest that we move to a world with less rigid belief structures so that we can resolve our differences?”

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