Blog #9

Textbook Chapter 6


1. How were women’s experiences of immigration in the United States distinct from those
of men? How were they similar?


The women’s experiences were different then the experiences of the men because, most foreign women as in non-white, non-Christian women were considered as prostitutes. The American government did not want them to come to America and populate America with foreigners. Also they did not want the foreign women to destroy the morality of the American society. Asian women had to answer so many questions before they can get into the country and be able to live here. The main reason for the interrogations was to make sure that these women were not prostitutes. Men were able to easily come into this country because, they were able to work. The men were also not being accused or suspected of being immoral. The similarities were between the white women immigrants and the men. The main similarity was that they both endured a hard voyage to America and also were easily accepted into this country compared to the Asian women. But that is where their similarities end. Because one difference was that when unwed, unchaperoned women arrived to this country. There was the risk of her becoming a prostitute, because of other people convincing them and forcing them to become prostitutes.



2. How would you characterize the differences among women involved in industrial protest,
the populist movement, and the settlement house movement? Do you see any similarities?


The similarities that was there among the women involved in the industrial protest, the women involved in the populist movement, and the women involved in the settlement house movement was that they all were fighting for women’s rights. The differences among the women involved in the industrial protest, the women involved in the populist movement, and the women involved in the settlement house movement was that they all fought differently and for slightly different reasons. The different reasons were, for the women involved in the industrial protest was to get normal and fair working conditions and paychecks. For the women involved in the populist movement was to get the same jobs as men. As in that they were able to work side by side with men in other jobs besides the jobs that were considered to be female jobs. For the women involved in the settlement house movement was to help immigrant women and immigrant children to learn about the American culture and way of life.


Textbook Document Chapter 6


1. What is the “diversity of experience” that Addams witnessed in her work with immigrants in the neighborhood around Hull House, and how did it contribute to the ethical complexities about which she wrote?


The "diversity of experience" that Addams witnessed in her work with the immigrants in the neighborhood around Hull House was that neighbors would help one another out when someone needed help. The reason that the neighbors would help one another out was because they all were in the same situation. So they would help others assuming that the others would help them out when they would need help themselves. Then there were the people who say how the high class lived and would want to live like them. So they begin to not help their neighbors in order to save money and become rich. It contributed to the ethical complexities about which she wrote by showing how there were people that would help others even though they were in similar situations as the people who needed help. Also how there were people that would in effect turn their backs on the people who needed their help in order to survive themselves and be able to live like the high class.



2. How did Addams’s experience as a member of the path breaking generation of women college graduates affect her perspective as a settlement house volunteer?


Addams’s as a member of the path breaking generation of women college graduates affected her perspective as a settlement house volunteer by several ways. One of the ways was that she realized that the college graduate charity visitor did not have any form of experiences that these women had in order to help them out and give them good advices and care. Another way was that the parents depended on their children to take care of them when they become to old, or injured to work and provide for their family. The other way is that only the healthy, able to work poor were to receive help by charity visitors.