Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Parallel power structures: women and the voluntary sphere / Kathleen D. McCarthy
  • pt. 1. The American scene
  • Women's voluntary associations: from charity to reform / Anne Firor Scott
  • Charity or mutual aid?: two perspectives on Latin women's philanthropy in Tampa, Florida / Nancy A. Hewitt
  • "We specialize in the wholly impossible": the philanthropic work of Black women / Darlene Clark Hine
  • Who funded Hull House? / Kathryn Kish Sklar
  • pt. 2. Women and philanthropy outside the United States
  • "For the greater service of God": opulent foundations and women's philanthropy in colonial Mexico / Edith Couturier
  • From contemplative practice to charitable activity: Russian women's religious communities and the development of charitable work, 1861-1917 / Brenda Meehan-Waters
  • Women's organizations and the infant health movement in France and the United States, 1890-1920 / Alisa Klaus
  • Good and bad mothers: lady philanthropists and London housewives before the First World War / Ellen Ross.