| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

More than Neighbors: Catholic Settlements and Day Nurseries in Chicago, 1893–1930. By Deborah A. Skok. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. x, 241 pp. $38.00, ISBN 978-0-87580-374-6.)
Looking at front matter (title page, cover photo, and library bibliographical categories), this book appears to be a discussion of the Catholic Daughters of Charity (immediately recognizable in their impressive headgear) and their social work in Chicago. This impression is false. More than Neighbors is adequate as a contemporary assessment, but "Catholic settlements" and the library categories social settlements and Catholic Church charities do not convey the author's broad coverage. The author delineates three models of settlement work, only one operated by the Daughters of Charity. Deborah A. Skok also addresses clerical-lay tensions in the early twentieth-century Catholic Church; ethnic relations within the Catholic Church; the problems of Italian immigrants to Chicago; and the changing role of American Catholic women from Leo XIII's Rerum novarum to World War I and the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote.	1
The Catholic Women's League, the club-model, appealed to upwardly mobile women who sought worthwhile interests outside the home. At first, their meetings and socials provided funds to support specific charities and to help educate members. Then they began to organize day nurseries for the poor; however, they were hesitant to provide too much assistance lest they make the poor too dependent on outside help.	. . .

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