Funding Feminism
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Alice Paul and NAWSA feud
Alva Belmont
American Birth Control League
Anna Howard Shaw
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coeducation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
coeducation at the Johns Hopkins Medical School
coeducation at the University of Rochester
coercive philanthropy
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development of the Pill
Ellen Scripps
Elsie Clews Parsons
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founder of Smith College
founding of Scripps College
founding of Stanford University
Gertrude Pinchot
Grace Hoadley Dodge
history of birth control
history of coeducation
history of Planned Parenthood
history of the Women's Trade Union league
history of women doctors
history of women's colleges
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Indiana Fletcher Williams
ISBN13=9781469634692
Jane Stanford
Jessie Ashley
Juliet Rublee
Katharine McCormick
Language_English
Margaret Robins
Mary Dreier
Mary Garrett
Mary Ware Dennett
merger of the YWCA
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Phoebe Hearst
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PUB=The University of North Carolina Press
race and class divisions in the women's movement
Sophia Smith
Subject=History
Subject=Society & Culture : General
supporters of Margaret Sanger
Sweet Briar College
wealthy women and feminism
Why did the woman suffrage movement succeed
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women in the labor movement
Women's Trade Union League
working girls' societies
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- ISBN 9781469634692
- Weight: 620g
- Dimensions: 155 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 02 Oct 2017
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: Chapel Hill, US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension 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 ""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. 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.
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.
Joan Marie Johnson is faculty program coordinator for the Office of the Provost at Northwestern University.
