Sophonisba Breckinridge

Sophonisba Breckinridge

Biografia
Naixement	1r abril 1866 Lexington (Kentucky)
Mort	30 juliol 1948 (82 anys) Chicago (Illinois)
Formació	Wellesley College Escola de Dret de la Universitat de Chicago
Activitat
Ocupació	advocada, sufragista, economista, politòloga, professora d'universitat, escriptora
Ocupador	Universitat de Chicago
Membre de	Lliga Internacional de Dones per la Pau i la Llibertat National American Woman Suffrage Association
Família
Pares	William Campbell Preston Breckinridge   i Issa Breckenridge

Sophonisba Breckinridge (Lexington, 1 d'abril de 1866 - Chicago, 30 de juliol de 1948) Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge fou una advocada, escriptora i activista estatunidenca que destacà com a reformadora social, científica i innovadora en educació superior.

Formà part de la Lliga Internacional de Dones per la Pau i la Llibertat.

Obra

Algunes publicacions

• The Delinquent Child and the Home, 1912 (amb Edith Abbott)
• Public Welfare Administration, 1927
• Women in the Twentieth Century, 1933
• The Family and the State, 1934
• The Wage-earning Woman and the State: a reply to Miss Minnie Bronson (1910)
• Papers presented at the conferences held during the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, The Child in the City (Nova York, Amo Press, 1970 - reimprés de l'edició del 1912)
• Truancy and Senar-Attendance in the Chicago Schools: a study of the social aspects of the compulsory education and child labor legislation of Illinois (1917)
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge: a Leader in the New South. Chicago, Illinois: The University of Chicago Press, 1921.
• Family Welfare Work in the Metropolitan Community: selected case records (1924)
• Public Welfare Administration in the United States, select documents (1927)
• The Illinois adoption law and its administration (1928)
• The Ohio poor law and its administration ... and appendixes with selected decisions of the Ohio Supreme Court (1934)
• Public welfare administration, with special reference to the organization of state departments; outline and bibliography; supplementary to Public welfare administration in the United states: select documents (1934)
• Social work and the courts; select statutes and judicial decisions (1934)
• The development of poor relief legislation in Kansas, by Grace A. Browning... and appendixes with court decisions edited by Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1935)
• The Michigan poor law: its development and administration with special reference to state provision for medical care of the indigent / per Isabel Campbell Bruce i Edith Eickhoff, editada amb una nota introductòria i decisions judicials seleccionades per Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1936)
• Indiana poor law; its development and administration, with special reference to the provisions of state care for the sick poor (1936)
• The Tenements of Chicago, 1908–1935 (Nova York: Arno Press, 1970; reimpressió de l'edició del 1936)
• The illegitimate child in Illinois, by Dorothy Frances Puttee ... and Mary Ruth Colby ... edició de Sophonisba P. Breckinridge (1937)
• State administration of child welfare in Illinois (1937)
• The Illinois poor law and its administration (1939)
• The Stepfather in the Family (1940)