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Title Women, philanthropy, and civil society / edited by Kathleen D. McCarthy.

Publication Info. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2001]
©2001

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Description 1 online resource (v, 314 pages) : illustrations
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Series Philanthropic studies ; 18th volume
Philanthropic studies ; v. 18.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the City University of New York, expands our understanding of female beneficence in shaping diverse political cultures ... As in the United States, this activity often enabled women to create parallel power structures that resembled, but rarely replicated, the commercial and political arenas of men. From nuns who managed charitable and educational institutions to political activists demanding an end ot discriminatory practices against women and children, many of the women whose lives are documented in these pages claimed distinctive public roles through the nonprofit sphere. The authors are from Europe, the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, Egypt, India, and Asia. Their essays cover nations on every continent, representing a variety of political and religious systems ... The essays in this book illustrate the extent to which government, the market, and religion have shaped the role of female philanthropy and philanthropists in different national settings. By shifting the focus from organizations to donors and volunteers, they begin to assess the relative importance of each of these factors in creating opportunities for citizen participation, as well as the role of female philanthropy in opening a space for women in the public sphere"--From publisher's description.
Contents Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland / Maria Luddy -- Women and philanthropy in France : from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Evelyne Diebolt -- Women and philanthropy in Brazil : an overview / Leilah Landim -- The Norwegian voluntary sector and civil society in transition : women as a catalyst of deep-seated change / Per Selle -- Women and philanthropy in colonial and post-colonial Australia / Shurlee Swain -- Parallel power structures, invisible careers, and the changing nature of American Jewish women's philanthropy / Susan M. Chambré -- Women and philanthropy in Egypt / Amani Kandil -- An Islamic activist in interwar Egypt / Beth Baron -- Women and philanthropy in Palestinian and Egyptian societies : the contributions of Islamic thought and the strategy of national survival / Ghada Hashem Talhami -- Women and philanthropy in India / Pushpa Sundar -- Women and philanthropy in South Korea from a non-Western perspective / Hye Kyung Lee.
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Subject Women in charitable work -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women in charitable work -- Political aspects -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women -- Charitable contributions -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women volunteers in social service -- Cross-cultural studies.
Civil society.
Cross-cultural studies.
Women volunteers in social service.
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Études transculturelles.
Femmes bénévoles en service social.
Société civile.
Femmes dans les œuvres de bienfaisance -- Études transculturelles.
Femmes -- Dons de charité -- Études transculturelles.
Femmes bénévoles en service social -- Études transculturelles.
Femmes dans les œuvres de bienfaisance -- Aspect politique -- Études transculturelles.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General
Cross-cultural studies
Civil society
Women in charitable work
Women volunteers in social service
Philanthropie
Gesellschaft
Aufsatzsammlung
Frau
Gender identity.
Women in charitable work -- Cross-cultural studies.
Women volunteers in social service -- Cross-cultural studies.
Civil society.
Women philanthropists -- Cross-cultural studies.
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Essays.
Cross-cultural studies.
Études transculturelles.
Added Author McCarthy, Kathleen D., editor of compilation.
Other Form: Print version: Women, philanthropy, and civil society. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001 0253339189 (DLC) 00063425 (OCoLC)44802912
ISBN 9780253069016 (electronic bk.)
0253069017 (electronic bk.)
0253339189
9780253339188
Standard No. AU@ 000074932598
AU@ 000074952228

 
    
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