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)
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Categoria:Sufragistes estatunidencs Categoria:Assistents socials Categoria:Alumnes de l'Escola de Dret de la Universitat de Chicago Categoria:Alumnes del Wellesley College Categoria:Persones de Lexington (Kentucky) Categoria:Morts a Chicago Categoria:Escriptors de Kentucky Categoria:Morts el 1948 Categoria:Feministes del segle XX Categoria:Escriptors estatunidencs morts al segle XX Categoria:Escriptors estatunidencs nascuts al segle XIX Categoria:Nascuts el 1866