Mary Jo Deegan was born on November 27, 1946 to William James and Ida May (Scott) Deegan in Chicago, Illinois. She holds an A.S. degree from Lake Michigan College, 1966, a B.S., Western Michigan University, 1969, and earned an M.A., 1973, and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, 1975. Mary Jo Deegan is a noted feminist scholar and sociology educator who has produced several works including Jane Addams and Men of the Chicago School, 1892-1918 (1988) for which she received the Choice Award, 1989-90. Some other major works include Women and Disability (1985), Feminist Ethics in Social Research (1989), and Women in Sociology (editor, 1991).
She is a member of the American Sociological Association and the International Sociological Association. She became an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1975 and has held the rank of full professor since 1989.
The Mary Jo Deegan Collection includes scholarly articles and other writings by Mary Jo Deegan. Some published reviews of her work are also included.
Mary Jo Deegan donated most of these materials to the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1979 and 1993 - 1994.
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Mary Jo Deegan Collection
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| 1 | 1 | Deegan, Mary Jo and John S. Burger. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 14 (October 1978): 362 -372. Folder also holds typed manuscript copy of the same article,
1975 |
| 2 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Women and Sociology: 1890-1930." Manuscript copy of 29 pages,
1978 |
| 3 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Women and Sociology: 1890-1930." Journal of the History of Sociology 1 (Fall 1978): 11-32. 2 copies
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| 4 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "The Taft-Dummer Correspondence: A Significant Resource in the Biography of Jessie Taft." Journal of the Otto Rank Association 13 (Winter 1978-1979): 55-60.
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| 5 | Articles about W.I. Thomas,
1979-1981 |
| 6 | Entries about "Edith Abbot" and "Emily Green Balch" written by Mary Jo Deegan published in Mainiero, Lina, ed. American Women Writers. Vol. 1. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.
1979 |
| 7 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Early Women Sociologists and the American Sociological Society: The Patterns of Exclusion and Participation." The American Sociologist 16 (February 1981): 14-24.
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| 8 | Burger, John S. and Mary Jo Deegan. "George Herbert Mead on Internationalism, Democracy, and War." The Wisconsin Sociologist 18 (Spring - Summer 1981): 72-83.
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| 9 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Marion Talbot." Mainiero, Lina, ed. American Women Writers. Vol. 4. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.,
1982 |
| 10 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Sociology at Wellesley College: 1900 - 1919." Journal of the History of Sociology. 5, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 91-115.
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| 11 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "The Clinical Sociology of Jessie Taft." Clinical Sociology Review. 4 (1986): 30-44.
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| 12 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "An American Dream: The Historical Connections between Women, Humanism, and Sociology, 1890 - 1920." Humanity and Society. 11 (August): 353-365.
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| 13 | Excerpts from Deegan, Mary Jo and Michael R. Hill, eds. Women and Symbolic Interaction. Boston: Allen & Unwin, Inc.,
1987 |
| 14 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Transcending a Patriarchal Past: Teaching the History of Women in Sociology." Teaching Sociology. 16, no. 2 (April 1988): 141-150.
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| 15 | Heise, Kenan. "Jane Addams, a Stifled Star." Chicago Tribune. Section 5, Colum 3. May 31, 1988. Review of Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892 - 1918 by Mary Jo Deegan. (2 clippings)
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| 16 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Women of Hull-House, 1895 - 1899." The American Sociologist. (Winter 1988): 301-311.
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| 17 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "Sociology and Conviviality: A Conversation with Ellenhorn on Convivial Sociology." Humanity & Society. 13, no. 1 (1989): 85-88.
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| 18 | 3 reviews of Jane Addams and the Men of the Chicago School, 1892 - 1918 by Mary Jo Deegan.
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| 19 | Deegan, Mary Jo. Review of The Chicago School: A Liberal Critique of Capitalism by Dennis Smith and Myths of the Chicago School of Sociology by Lee Harvey. The British Journal of Sociology 41, no. 4 (December 1990): 588-590.
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| 20 | Deegan, Mary Jo and Michael R. Hill. "Doctoral Dissertations as Liminal Journeys of the Self: Betwixt and Between in Graduate Sociology Programs." Teaching Sociology 19, no. 3 (July 1991): 322-332.
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| 21 | Excerpts from Deegan, Mary Jo. Women in Sociology: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook. New York: Greenwood Press,
1991 |
| 22 | Deegan, Mary Jo. "The Genesis of the International Self: Working Hypotheses Emerging from the Chicago Experience (1892-1918)." Non-European Youth and the Process of Integration for a Tolerant Society. Luigi Tomasi, ed. Trento, Italy: Reverditio edizioni,
1992 |
