Seeing with Their Hearts: Chicago Women and the Vision of the Good City, 1871-1933

by Maureen A. Flanagan

Book Overview

At the turn of the last century, as industrialists and workers made Chicago the hardworking City of Big Shoulders celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Chicago women articulated an alternative City of Homes in which the welfare of residents would be the municipal government's principal purpose. Seeing With Their Hearts traces the formation of this vision from the relief efforts following the Chicago fire of 1871 through the many political battles...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691095396
• ISBN13: 9780691095394
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"