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The Old Country Service School: Gender, Class, and Identity and the YWCA's Training of Immigrant Women in International Social Welfare Philosophy, 1919
Author(s) -
Ford Nancy Gentile
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/0149-0508.00097
Subject(s) - immigration , curriculum , welfare , gender studies , identity (music) , social welfare , sociology , service (business) , class (philosophy) , social work , social class , political science , law , pedagogy , economics , economy , physics , artificial intelligence , acoustics , computer science
In April 1919, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) created the Old Country Service School (OCSS) to train foreign‐born women in American social welfare philosophy. The YWCA expected OCSS students to help rebuild war‐torn Europe. A study of the school's curriculum and students provides an interesting examination of gender, class, and identity as they related to international peace efforts during the interwar years.