Women and Philanthropy in Education

This book illuminates the philanthropic impulse that has influenced women's education and its place in the broader history of philanthropy in America. Contributing to the history of women, education, and philanthropy, the book shows how voluntary activity and home-grown educational enterprise were as important as big donors in the development of philanthropy. The essays in Women and Philanthropy in Education are generally concerned with local rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253344662
• ISBN13: 9780253344663
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"