Sophonisba Breckinridge

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (a veces también Breckenridge) (Lexington, Kentucky, 1 de abril de 1866-Chicago, 30 de julio de 1948) fue una abogada y activista estadounidense que se destacó como reformadora social, científica social e innovadora en la educación superior.​

Sophonisba Breckinridge
Información personal
Nacimiento	1 de abril de 1866 Lexington, Kentucky, Estados Unidos
Fallecimiento	30 de julio de 1948 (82 años) Chicago, Estados Unidos
Nacionalidad	Estadounidense
Familia
Padres	William Campbell Preston Breckinridge Issa Breckenridge
Educación
Educada en	Wellesley College University of Chicago Law School
Información profesional
Ocupación	Abogada, profesora de universidad, politóloga, sufragista, economista y escritora
Empleador	Universidad de Chicago
Miembro de	Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad

Fue miembro de la Liga Internacional de Mujeres por la Paz y la Libertad.​

Obra

Algunas publicaciones

• The Delinquent Child and the Home, 1912 (con Edith Abbott)
• Public Welfare Administration, 1927
• Women in the Twentieth Century, 1933
• The Family and the State, 1934

Adicionales obras

• 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 (New York, Amo Press, 1970 - reimpreso de la edición de 1912)

• Truancy and Non-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 / por Isabel Campbell Bruce y Edith Eickhoff, editada con una nota introductoria y decisiones judiciales seleccionadas por 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 (New York: Arno Press, 1970; reimpresión de la edición de 1936)

• The illegitimate child in Illinois, by Dorothy Frances Puttee ... and Mary Ruth Colby ... editó 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)

Enlaces externos

• Sophonisba Breckinridge, Ph.D. (Political Science) 1901, J.D. 1904. en el sitio web de la Universidad de Chicago (School of Social Service Administration)
• Nicolle Bettis: Sophonisba Breckinridge. - Webster University

• Datos: Q7563127
• Multimedia: Sophonisba Breckinridge / Q7563127