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Lady bountiful revisited : women, philanthropy, and power

Title
Lady bountiful revisited : women, philanthropy, and power / edited by Kathleen D. McCarthy.
Publication
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1990.

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Additional Authors
McCarthy, Kathleen D.
Description
xiii, 201 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Women volunteers in social service > Cross-cultural studies
  • Women volunteers in social service > United States
  • Women philanthropists > Cross-cultural studies
  • Women philanthropists > United States
  • Voluntarism > Cross-cultural studies
  • Voluntarism > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Parallel power structures: women and the voluntary sphere / Kathleen D. McCarthy -- Pt. 1. The American scene -- Women's voluntary associations: from charity to reform / Anne Firor Scott -- Charity or mutual aid?: two perspectives on Latin women's philanthropy in Tampa, Florida / Nancy A. Hewitt -- "We specialize in the wholly impossible": the philanthropic work of Black women / Darlene Clark Hine -- Who funded Hull House? / Kathryn Kish Sklar -- Pt. 2. Women and philanthropy outside the United States -- "For the greater service of God": opulent foundations and women's philanthropy in colonial Mexico / Edith Couturier -- From contemplative practice to charitable activity: Russian women's religious communities and the development of charitable work, 1861-1917 / Brenda Meehan-Waters -- Women's organizations and the infant health movement in France and the United States, 1890-1920 / Alisa Klaus -- Good and bad mothers: lady philanthropists and London housewives before the First World War / Ellen Ross.
Call Number
JBE 91-668
ISBN
  • 081351598X
  • 0813516110 (pbk.)
LCCN
90032549
OCLC
  • 21196973
  • NYPG91-B14507
Title
Lady bountiful revisited : women, philanthropy, and power / edited by Kathleen D. McCarthy.
Imprint
New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1990.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
McCarthy, Kathleen D.
Research Call Number
JBE 91-668
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