Lady bountiful revisited : women, philanthropy, and power edited by Kathleen D. McCarthy

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McCarthy, Kathleen D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women volunteers in social service--United States.

Women volunteers in social service.

Women philanthropists--Cross-cultural studies.

Women philanthropists.

Women philanthropists--United States.

Voluntarism--Cross-cultural studies.

Voluntarism.

Voluntarism--United States.

Women volunteers in social service--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 p. ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1990.

Contents:

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.

Parallel power structures : women and the voluntary sphere / Kathleen D. McCarthy

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 Huse? / Kathryn Kish Sklar

"For the greater service of God" : opulent foundations and women's philanthropy in colonial Mexico / Edith Couturier

From comtemplative practice to charitable activity : Russian women's religious communities and the development of charitable work, 1861-1917 / Brenda Meehan-Waters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives

ISBN:

0813516110 (pbk.) :

081351598X :

OCLC:

21196973