Funding Feminism (eBook)

Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967

Joan Marie Johnson (Autor)

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2017
320 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-3470-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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. This cadre of activists included Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst; Grace Dodge, granddaughter of Wall Street "e;Merchant Prince"e; 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. In a time when women still wielded limited political power, philanthropy was perhaps the most potent tool they had. But even as these wealthy women exercised considerable influence, their activism had significant limits. As Johnson argues, restrictions tied to their giving engendered resentment and jeopardized efforts to establish coalitions across racial and class lines. As the struggle for full economic and political power and self-determination for women continues today, this history reveals how generous women helped shape the movement. And Johnson shows us that tensions over wealth and power that persist in the modern movement have deep historical roots.

Autor

Joan Marie Johnson is a historian and Director for Faculty in the Office of the Provost at Northwestern University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.8.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Gender and American Culture
• Zusatzinfo: 17 halftones, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Alice Paul and NAWSA feud • Alva Belmont • american birth control league • Anna Howard Shaw • coeducation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology • coeducation at the Johns Hopkins Medical School • coeducation at the University of Rochester • coercive philanthropy • development of the Pill • Ellen Scripps • Elsie Clews Parsons • founder of Smith College • founding of Scripps College • founding of Stanford University • Gertrude Pinchot • Grace Hoadley Dodge • history of birth • history of birth control • history of coeducation • history of Planned Parenthood • history of the Women’s Trade Union league • history of the Women’s Trade Union league • history of women’s colleges • history of women doctors • history of women’s colleges • Indiana Fletcher Williams • Jane Stanford • Jessie Ashley • Juliet Rublee • Katharine McCormick • Margaret Robins • Mary Dreier • Mary Garrett • Mary Ware Dennett • merger of the YWCA • Phoebe Hearst • race and class divisions in the women’s movement • race and class divisions in the women’s movement • Sophia Smith • supporters of Margaret Sanger • Sweet Briar College • wealthy women and feminism • Why did the woman suffrage movement succeed • Women’s Trade Union League • women in the labor movement • Women’s Trade Union League • working girls’ societies • working girls’ societies
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-3470-8 / 1469634708
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-3470-8 / 9781469634708