Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Julia Lathrop: Social Service and Progressive Government (Lives of American Women)

Julia Lathrop: Social Service and Progressive Government (Lives of American Women)
Julia Lathrop Social Service and Progressive Government - Lives of American Women
Author: Miriam Cohen
Julia Lathrop was a social servant, government activist, and social scientist who expanded notions of women?s proper roles in public life during the early 1900s. Appointed as chief of the U.S. Children?s Bureau, created in 1912 to promote child welfare, she was the first woman to head a United States federal agency. Throughout her life, Lathrop ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813348032
ISBN-10: 081334803X
Publication Date: 3/7/2017
Pages: 192
Edition: annotated edition
Rating:
  ?

0 stars, based on 0 rating
Publisher: Westview Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review


Genres: