Jessie B Ramey
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessie B Ramey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessie B |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramey |
| SIGNATURE | RAMEY J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Love, Joy, and Hope
What does resilience look like in social movements? How do activists keep going when times are hard? What tools have people used to form movements that could thrive despite constant setbacks and repression? This digital history piece examines these questions through the life of Kipp Dawson, who built coalitions for over sixty years in some of the nation's largest movements for freedom and equality. Her astonishing career stretched from the frontl…
We Came Together and We Fought
For over sixty years Kipp Dawson has built coalitions on the front lines of the civil rights movement, Vietnam antiwar movement, women's movement, gay liberation movement, labor movement, and education justice movement, confronting state-sponsored violence and challenging systems of active harm and death. Her astonishing career-and marginalized identities as a lesbian, Jewish, working-class woman from a multiracial family-demonstrates the radical…
Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
Foster care today is widely criticized for breaking up families, providing inadequate services to children, and stigmatizing all involved. Yet, as Catherine E. Rymph shows in her new history of what became the foster care “system,” its founders had high hopes for reforming and modernizing child welfare through professionalized social work and scientific case management. Their vision of paid foster homes to create loving, substitute families imagi…
The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
Are U.S. parents overly controlling their children, micromanaging, helicoptering, and spoiling them? Are parents so focused on getting their kids into the “right” day care, the “best” schools, and the “perfect” university that they are creating a generation unable to succeed on its own? Paula S. Fass's new book takes as its starting point contemporary agonizing over “the end of American childhood.” As the second part of her title makes clear, Fas…
For the public good: Urban youth advocacy and the fight for public education
I Dream of Them Almost Every Night: Working-Class Fathers and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878–1929
This article reconceptualizes orphanages as child care, exploring the ways in which working-class fathers used institutions in times of family crisis to meet their child care needs. By examining the white, largely widowed men who placed their children in the United Presbyterian Orphan’s Home in Pittsburgh from the 1880s through the 1920s, the study sheds light on working-class fatherhood, a little understood aspect of family history. Using rich n…
The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
Are U.S. parents overly controlling their children, micromanaging, helicoptering, and spoiling them? Are parents so focused on getting their kids into the “right” day care, the “best” schools, and the “perfect” university that they are creating a generation unable to succeed on its own? Paula S. Fass's new book takes as its starting point contemporary agonizing over “the end of American childhood.” As the second part of her title makes clear, Fas…
For the public good: Urban youth advocacy and the fight for public education
I Dream of Them Almost Every Night: Working-Class Fathers and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878–1929
This article reconceptualizes orphanages as child care, exploring the ways in which working-class fathers used institutions in times of family crisis to meet their child care needs. By examining the white, largely widowed men who placed their children in the United Presbyterian Orphan’s Home in Pittsburgh from the 1880s through the 1920s, the study sheds light on working-class fatherhood, a little understood aspect of family history. Using rich n…
For the public good: Urban youth advocacy and the fight for public education
The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
Are U.S. parents overly controlling their children, micromanaging, helicoptering, and spoiling them? Are parents so focused on getting their kids into the “right” day care, the “best” schools, and the “perfect” university that they are creating a generation unable to succeed on its own? Paula S. Fass's new book takes as its starting point contemporary agonizing over “the end of American childhood.” As the second part of her title makes clear, Fas…
Raising Government Children: A History of Foster Care and the American Welfare State
Foster care today is widely criticized for breaking up families, providing inadequate services to children, and stigmatizing all involved. Yet, as Catherine E. Rymph shows in her new history of what became the foster care “system,” its founders had high hopes for reforming and modernizing child welfare through professionalized social work and scientific case management. Their vision of paid foster homes to create loving, substitute families imagi…
Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché
Love, Joy, and Hope
What does resilience look like in social movements? How do activists keep going when times are hard? What tools have people used to form movements that could thrive despite constant setbacks and repression? This digital history piece examines these questions through the life of Kipp Dawson, who built coalitions for over sixty years in some of the nation's largest movements for freedom and equality. Her astonishing career stretched from the frontl…
We Came Together and We Fought
For over sixty years Kipp Dawson has built coalitions on the front lines of the civil rights movement, Vietnam antiwar movement, women's movement, gay liberation movement, labor movement, and education justice movement, confronting state-sponsored violence and challenging systems of active harm and death. Her astonishing career-and marginalized identities as a lesbian, Jewish, working-class woman from a multiracial family-demonstrates the radical…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)