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Jane Addams

6 September 1860-21 May 1935

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A City is, in many respects, a great business corporation, but in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping. City housekeeping has failed partly because women, the traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform activities.

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The City is enlarged housekeeping, a failed enterprise because women have not been consulted as to its multiform activities.

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The City is a failure partly because women have not been consulted, for while a city is in many respects a great business corporation, in other respects it is enlarged housekeeping.

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Humanitarianism is a form of charity which splits the world into the helpers and those to be helped as such, it can become an instrument for reinforcing rather than redressing inequality.