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

by Joan Marie Johnson

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1469634694

ISBN13:9781469634692

Release Date:October 2017

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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