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More Than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930.(Book review)

Publication: Church History
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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More Than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893-1930. By Deborah A. Skok. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x + 245 pp. $38.00 cloth.

For students of history and viewers of Jeopardy! alike, the phrase "settlement houses in Chicago" brings to of...

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...mind the single monumental name Jane Addams, who presided over Hull House from 1889 until her death in 1935. In More Than Neighbors, Deborah Skok, who teaches history at Hendrix College, shows how expanding our sights to include Catholic settlements in Chicago during roughly the same period enriches and complicates our understanding of the settlement house movement in the city in which it has left its most enduring legacy. Skok's subject matter is far more extensive than most students of American women's history and religious history might credit: in the period...

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