Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : women and philanthropy in education : a problem of conceptions / Andrea Walton
  • pt. 1. Schools, colleges, universities, and foundations. Teaching as philanthropy : Catharine Beecher and the Hartford Female Seminary / Frances Huehls
  • Philanthropy and social case work : Mary E. Richmond and the Russell Sage Foundation, 1909-1928 / Sarah Henry Lederman
  • Southern poor whites and higher education : Martha Berry's philanthropic strategies in the building of Berry College / Victoria-María MacDonald and Eleanore Lenington
  • Creative financing in social science : women scholars and early research / Mary Ann Dzuback
  • Considering her influence : Sydnor H. Walker and Rockefeller support for social work, social scientists, and universities in the South / Amy E. Wells
  • Brokering old and new philanthropic traditions : women's continuing education in the Cold War era / Linda Eisenmann
  • pt. 2. Women's philanthropy as an agent of social and educational change. American philanthropy and women's education exported : missionary teachers in Turkey / Roberta Wollons
  • Sisters in service : African American sororities and philanthropic support of education / Marybeth Gasman
  • "Valuable and legitimate services" : black and white women's philanthropy through the PTA / Christine Woyshner
  • Women's philanthropy for women's art in America, past and present / Karen J. Blair
  • pt. 3. The politics of philanthropy in women's education : race, class, and gender. "Nothing more for men's colleges" : the educational philanthropy of Mrs. Russell Sage / Ruth Crocker
  • The texture of benevolence : northern philanthropy, southern African American women, and higher education, 1930-1950 / Jayne R. Beilke
  • "Contributing to the most promising peaceful revolution in our time" : the American women's scholarship for Japanese women, 1893-1941 / Linda L. Johnson
  • Supporting females in a male field : philanthropy for women's engineering education / Amy Sue Bix.