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By Andrea Walton

ISBN-10: 0253111315

ISBN-13: 9780253111319

ISBN-10: 0253344662

ISBN-13: 9780253344663

This publication illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has encouraged women's schooling and its position within the broader background of philanthropy in the USA. Contributing to the background of ladies, schooling, and philanthropy, the booklet indicates how voluntary task and home-grown academic firm have been as very important as sizeable donors within the improvement of philanthropy. The essays in girls and Philanthropy in schooling are in general enthusiastic about neighborhood instead of nationwide results of philanthropy, and the giving of time instead of financial help. the various essays concentrate on the person lives of lady philanthropists (Olivia Sage, Martha Berry) and lecturers (Tsuda Umeko, Catharine Beecher), delivering own graphics of philanthropy within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. those tales offer facts of the main function performed by means of girls within the improvement of philanthropy and its value to the schooling of women.

Philanthropic and Nonprofit experiences -- Dwight F. Burlingame and David C. Hammack, editors

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Appleton, 1915). 22. Anna C. Brackett’s Women and the Higher Education and Kate Douglas Wig- 28 INTRODUCTION gin’s The Kindergarten were part of the Distaff Series published by Harper and Brothers in 1893. For a general discussion of women’s involvement in the Columbian Exposition, see Jeanne Weimann, The Fair Women (Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1981). 23. Goodale, “Literature of Philanthropy,” 1–5. 24. , Lady Bountiful Revisited. 25. For early works that dealt with the narrowing conception of philanthropy, see notes 2 and 10.

Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility. 47. For insight into the debate surrounding the radical revisionist critique of schooling, see Michael B. : Harvard University Press, 1968); and Diane Ravitch, The Revisionists Revised: A Critique of the Radical Attack on the Schools (New York: Basic, 1978). Appearing at this time, David Rothman’s The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971) provided an early and influential critique of the motives behind benevolence.

The recruitment of Robert Bremner to write a general history of philanthropy (Bremner’s American Philanthropy appeared in Daniel Boorstin’s American Civilization Series) was perhaps the most enduring outcome of Curti’s efforts to stimulate funded research on philanthropy. The influence of the Wisconsin Project can be traced in 31 ANDREA WALTON more diffuse ways through the work of Curti’s students and research assistants, notably David Allmendinger and Paul Mattingly. ” 46. , Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility.

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