Following the money: funding woman suffrage -- Unequal women working for women's equality: power and resentment in the woman suffrage movement -- Dictating with dollars: funding working-class women -- An education for women equal to that of men: funding colleges for women -- Using mammon for righteousness: funding coeducation through coercive philanthropy -- Margaret Sanger's network of feminists: funding the birth control movement -- Feminism and science: funding research for the pill
Summary
"Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries advanced the status of all women through acts of philanthropy. ... Motivated by their own experiences with sexism, and focusing on women's need for economic independence, these benefactors sought to expand women's access to higher education, promote suffrage, and champion reproductive rights, as well as to provide assistance to working-class women."--Jacket
