Women and philanthropy in education / edited by Andrea Walton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walton, Andrea, 1959-

Series:

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education--United States--History.

Women in higher education.

Endowments--United States--History.

Endowments.

Women philanthropists--United States--History.

Women philanthropists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has influenced women's education and its place in the broader history of philanthropy in America. Contributing to the history of women, education, and philanthropy, the book shows how voluntary activity and home-grown educational enterprise were as important as big donors in the development of philanthropy. The essays in Women and Philanthropy in Education are generally concerned with local rather than national effects of philanthropy, and the giving

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Women and Philanthropy in Education - A Problem of Conceptions; 1. Teaching as Philanthropy: Catharine Beecher and the Hartford Female Seminary; 2. Philanthropy and Social Case Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Russell Sage Foundtion, 1909-1928; 3. Southern Poor Whites and Higher Education: Martha Berry's Philanthropic Strategies in the Building of Berry College; 4. Creative Financing in Social Science: Women Scholars and Early Research

5. Considering Her Influence: Sydnor H. Walker and Rockefeller Support for Social Work, Social Scientists, and Universities in the South6. Brokering Old and New Philanthropic Traditions: Women's Continuing Education in the Cold War Era; 7. American Philanthropy and Women's Education Exported: Missionary Teachers in Turkey; 8. Sisters in Service: African American Sororities and Philanthropic Support of Education; 9. ""Valuable and Legitimate Services"": Black and White Women's Philanthropy through the PTA; 10. Women's Philanthropy for Women's Art in America, Past and Present

11. ""Nothing More for Men's Colleges"": the Educational Philanthropy of Mrs. Russell Sage12. The Texture of Benevolence: Northern Philanthropy, Southern African American Women, and Higher Education, 1930-1950; 13. ""Contributing to the Most Promising Peaceful Revolution in Our Time"": The American Women's Scholarship for Japanese Women, 1893-1941; 14. Supporting Females in a Male Field: Philanthropy for Women's Engineering Education; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-253-11131-5

OCLC:

475974516