Seeing Pittsburgh: The Social Survey, the Survey Workers, and the Historians - Maurine W. Greenwald and Margo Anderson, eds., Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996). Pp xi, 292. $49.95 cl., $22.95 pb.

2000 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-412
Author(s):  
Mary O. Furner
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social

Punarvivaham vs. Pativratyam: Pulugurta Lakshmi Narasamamba and the Widow Remarriage Question in Colonial Andhra

2021 ◽  
pp. 025764302110017
Author(s):  
Shaik Mahaboob Basha
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Child Marriage ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women's Journals

The question of widow remarriage, which occupied an important place in the social reform movement, was hotly debated in colonial Andhra. Women joined the debate in the early twentieth century. There was a conservative section of women, which bitterly opposed the widow remarriage movement and attacked the social reformers, both women and men. Pulugruta Lakshmi Narasamamba led this group of women. Lakshmi Narasamamba treated widow remarriage (punarvivaham) with contempt and termed it as an affront to the fidelity (pativratyam) of Hindu women. According to her, widow remarriage was equal to ‘prostitution’, and the widows who married again could not be granted the status of kulanganas (respectable or chaste women). Lakshmi Narasamamba’s stand on the question of widow remarriage led to the emergence of a fiery and protracted controversy among women which eventually led to the division of the most famous women’s organization, the Shri Vidyarthini Samajamu. She opposed not only widow remarriage but also post-puberty marriage and campaigned in favour of child marriage. This article describes the whole debate on the widow remarriage question that took place among women. It is based on the primary sources, especially the woefully neglected women’s journals in the Telugu language.

Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century

1998 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Ileen A. DeVault ◽  
Maurine W. Greenwald ◽  
Margo Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

“Writing Reform” in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles: The Sonoratown Anthologies

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEPHANIE LEWTHWAITE
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
American Women Writers ◽  
Social Imagination ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Anglo American

In early twentieth-century Los Angeles, Anglo-American women writers documented the emergence of a metropolis. Perceptions of race, ethnicity and culture became embedded in the struggle to depict and interpret a new urbanism. In capturing the changing cityscape, women writers constructed Sonoratown, the old Mexican Quarter of Los Angeles, as a place in the social imagination. This article examines representations of Sonoratown and its Mexican inhabitants in two anthologies. Women writers, many of whom moved in civic and reform-minded circles, rendered Sonoratown ambiguously: as a “picturesque” place to be preserved and yet a space earmarked for renewal, Sonoratown became entwined with the drive for social reform, assimilation and urban development.

Pittsburgh Surveyed: Social Science and Social Reform in the Early Twentieth Century.

1997 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 695
Author(s):  
John F. McClymer ◽  
Maurine W. Greenwald ◽  
Margo Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

Addressing the Social Determinants of Health

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (4) ◽  
pp. 357-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saty Satya-Murti ◽  
Jennifer Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Medical Attention ◽  
Community Center ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The Social

The Los Angeles Plaza Community Center (PCC), an early twentieth-century Los Angeles community center and clinic, published El Mexicano, a quarterly newsletter, from 1913 to 1925. The newsletter’s reports reveal how the PCC combined walk-in medical visits with broader efforts to address the overall wellness of its attendees. Available records, some with occasional clinical details, reveal the general spectrum of illnesses treated over a twelve-year span. Placed in today’s context, the medical care given at this center was simple and minimal. The social support it provided, however, was multifaceted. The center’s caring extended beyond providing medical attention to helping with education, nutrition, employment, transportation, and moral support. Thus, the social determinants of health (SDH), a prominent concern of present-day public health, was a concept already realized and practiced by these early twentieth-century Los Angeles Plaza community leaders. Such practices, although not yet nominally identified as SDH, had their beginnings in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social activism movement aiming to mitigate the social ills and inequities of emerging industrial nations. The PCC was one of the pioneers in this effort. Its concerns and successes in this area were sophisticated enough to be comparable to our current intentions and aspirations.

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