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Alva Belmont
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coeducation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
coeducation at the Johns Hopkins Medical School
coercive philanthropy
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development of the Pill
Ellen Scripps
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founder of Smith College
founding of Scripps College
founding of Stanford University
Gertrude Pinchot
Grace Hoadley Dodge
history of birth
history of coeducation
history of women's colleges
history of women’s colleges
Indiana Fletcher Williams
Jane Stanford
Katharine McCormick
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Margaret Robins
Mary Dreier
Mary Garrett
merger of the YWCA
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Phoebe Hearst
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race and class divisions in the women's movement
race and class divisions in the women’s movement
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Sophia Smith
Sweet Briar College
wealthy women and feminism
Why did the woman suffrage movement succeed
Women's Trade Union League
Women’s Trade Union League
working girls' societies
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- ISBN 9781469659077
- Weight: 520g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2020
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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 "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 a historian and Director for Faculty in the Office of the Provost at Northwestern University.
