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Hungry for Peace: Jane Addams and the Hull‐House Museum’s Contemporary Struggle for Food Justice
Author(s) -
Lee Lisa Yun
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00671.x
Subject(s) - democracy , sociology , economic justice , settlement (finance) , humanism , hull , state (computer science) , class (philosophy) , work (physics) , space (punctuation) , law , media studies , political science , engineering , politics , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , mechanical engineering , algorithm , world wide web , marine engineering , payment , operating system
Looking at the literal and metaphorical ways that bread manifests itself in different aspects of Jane Addams’s life and work, this essay maps out a new way of thinking about Addams’s unapologetic humanist project and efforts for peace that crossed boundaries of state and nation, gender, race, and class. The research for this work was inspired by a vibrant public program at the Jane Addams Hull‐House Museum called Re‐Thinking Soup, which is a modern day soup kitchen, democratic forum, laboratory space, and museum exhibit that is held weekly in the Residents’ Dining Hall, one of the original buildings of the Hull‐House Settlement. The essay explores the ways that Addams’s legacy and the work at Hull‐House around food can inform, educate, and expand the horizon of our imaginations on critical contemporary issues of social justice.