Jane Addams on Inequality and Political Friendship

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"Over the past quarter century, a number of scholars have enlivened an appreciation for just how innovative Jane Addams' thinking is. Wynne Walker Moskop offers original and compelling analysis that Addams was masterful at fostering mutually-beneficial political friendships across class social standing-a skill desperately needed in our current divided social and political climate."

Maurice Hamington, Professor of Philosophy, Portland State University

"In today's divisive political environment, this book is a timely guide to political friendship as a foundation for democratic life. Moskop has given us Jane Addams' much needed model of friendship in the midst of inequities as a possible political path forward."

Judy Whipps, Professor of Liberal Studies and Philosophy, Grand Valley State University

"To some, the call for political friendship sounds too much like a call for civility. In short, its radicalism is in doubt. But as Wynne Walker Moskop shows, Jane Addams turns this potentially conservative concept into a disruptive practice. Moskop argues that Addams developed a model of friendship that highlights rather than hides inequality. Moskop pursues her argument through a sensitive and systemic reading of three of Addams's books spanning the whole of her public concerns, describing a model of political friendship that points the way to effective transnational political collaboration. From Addams, Moskop derives lessons that theorists, social reformers, and community organizers in the twenty-first century would do well to remember."

Joel Winkelman, Review of Politics

"In Jane Addams on Inequality and Political Friendship, Wynne Walker Moskop, a political scientist at St. Louis University, joins the list of feminist scholars who focus on material generally neglected by their peers. Her challenging and illuminating volume's key point is as important and relevant today as it was in Addams's own time: the mutuality of gaps and benefits to those on both sides of unequal relationships."

Mary Briody Mahowald, Hypatia Reviews Online (HRO)