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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449858503321

Titolo

Women and philanthropy in education [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Andrea Walton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-253-11131-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies

Altri autori (Persone)

WaltonAndrea <1959->

Disciplina

378.1/982

Soggetti

Women in higher education - United States - History

Endowments - United States - History

Women philanthropists - United States - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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