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Funding Feminism Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967 / Joan Marie Johnson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Johnson, Joan Marie, author.
- Series:
- Gender & American culture.
- Gender and American culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women philanthropists--United States--History.
- Women philanthropists.
- Feminism--United States--History.
- Feminism.
- Feminists--Charitable contributions--United States--History.
- Feminists.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 pages) : illustrations, tables.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- This title examines an understudied dimension women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late-19th through the mid-20th centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street 'Merchant Prince' William Earle Dodge; and Ava Belmont, who married into the Vanderbilt family fortune. Motivated by their own experiences with sexism, and focusing on women's need for economic independence, these benefactors sought to expand women's access to higher education, promote suffrage, and champion reproductive rights as well as to provide assistance to working-class women.
- Contents:
- Following the money: funding woman suffrage
- Unequal women working for women's equality: power and resentment in the woman suffrage movement
- Dictating with dollars: funding working-class women
- An education for women equal to that of men: funding colleges for women
- Using mammon for righteousness: funding coeducation through coercive philanthropy
- Margaret Sanger's network of feminists: funding the birth control movement
- Feminism and science: funding research for the pill.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890852847
- 9781469634708
- 1469634708
- 9781469634715
- 1469634716
- OCLC:
- 999727804
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