ABSTRACT
The vast and complex connections experienced by Chicago pragmatists created a world emerging from intellectual and emotional bonds; including men and women, home and academy, children and adults, politics and ideas, community ritual, and everyday life. More formally, "feminist pragmatism" is an American theory uniting liberal values and a belief in a rational public with a cooperative, nurturing, and liberating model of the self, the other, and the community. Feminist pragmatists developed the ideas and practices underlying contemporary liberation sociology. Many of the most significant feminists in US history developed and enacted this theory in Chicago, especially between 1892 and 1920, years that were foundational to Annie Marion MacLean's professional career. Contemporary sociologists are taught a patriarchal version of Chicago sociology, and this often apolitical, largely qualitative approach, makes understanding MacLean difficult. The organic intellectuals of Hull-House graphically portrayed the life of immigrants and the Chicago neighborhoods, and MacLean drew similar "portraits".
