Funding Feminism
Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967
By Joan Marie Johnson
320 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 17 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-3470-8
Published: August 2017 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-3469-2
Published: October 2017 -
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-5907-7
Published: February 2020 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-5283-0
Published: August 2017
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As the struggle for full economic and political power and self-determination for women continues today, this history reveals how generous women helped shape the movement. And Johnson shows us that tensions over wealth and power that persist in the modern movement have deep historical roots.
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Joan Marie Johnson is a historian and Director for Faculty in the Office of the Provost at Northwestern University.
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"This compelling work of original and much-needed research [will] be of interest not only to those who study the history of feminist activism but to those with an interest in the power that private money wields in social justice circles."--Library Journal starred review
“Details both the successes attributed to the contributions of monied women and the challenges their philanthropy posed to the early women’s movement, arguing that stark class differences bred resentment among women’s organizations and undermined cross-class coalition.”--Choice
"A riveting new vantage point on the fight for women's rights in the twentieth century. . . . The scope of Johnson's book is as generous as the narrative is nuanced and compelling."--Reviews in American History
“Johnson makes a careful and persuasive case that a cluster of wives and daughters of major railroad, real estate, manufacturing, banking, and mining magnates used their inheritances to create opportunities for their ‘sisters’ in a sexist world.”--American Historical Review
“Johnson’s book is a strong reminder of the progress that women have made in the past 150 years, and I believe it will fuel awareness about the need for more women to give major gifts for gender equality today.”--Kiersten Marek, Philanthropy Women
“Offers an important and accessible. . . contribution to both academic and lay audiences interested in women’s history in America, philanthropy, and indeed, select social change movements led by prominent women over the course of nearly 100 years.”--New York Journal of Books