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Synopsis
A moving meditation on memory, myth, and the strength of women’s voices—from one of the most influential reformers of the 20th century.
In The Long Road of Woman’s Memory, Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize winner and founder of Chicago’s Hull-House, offers a heartfelt exploration of the psychological and cultural lives of working-class immigrant women. Sparked by the strange phenomenon of the “Devil Baby” rumor—an urban legend that drew thousands to Hull-House—Addams engages deeply with the stories of the women who came seeking it. What she received instead were intimate, often heartbreaking confessions of abuse, loss, sacrifice, and survival.
Rather than dismiss these myths, Addams recognizes them as catalysts for healing, and as triggers for powerful personal reflection. With compassion and insight, she reflects on how myth and memory help women to reclaim their agency, dignity, and voice, especially in old age. She explores the subtle transformation of trauma into wisdom, and the redemptive nature of storytelling in women's lives.
This profound and beautifully written work is both an early feminist classic and a philosophical meditation on grief, endurance, motherhood, and the social structures that shape—and too often, silence—women’s experiences.
"A quietly radical book that brings voice to those who were too often voiceless."
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À propos de l?auteur
Jane Addams (1860 – 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed the vote to be effective in doing so. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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