Funding feminism : monied women, philanthropy, and the women's movement, 1870-1967 /
"Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. ... Motivated by their own experie...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT CONNECT |
| Summary: | "Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. ... 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."--Jacket |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America EBSCO eBook History Collection Books at JSTOR Evidence Based Acquisitions Project MUSE Universal EBA Ebooks |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781469634708 1469634708 9781469634715 1469634716 |
