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

by Joan Marie Johnson

Book Overview

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"