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Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society
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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. The contributors examine the role of philanthropy, the giving of time, money, and/or valuables for public benefiting shaping nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), civil society, and women's political culture world-wide. 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 to 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Copyright, Half Title
  2. p. i
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  1. Series Page
  2. p. ii
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  1. Title
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Introduction
  2. Kathleen D. McCarthy
  3. pp. 1-8
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  1. 1. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
  2. Maria Luddy
  3. pp. 9-28
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  1. 2. Women and Philanthropy in France: from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
  2. Evelyne Diebolt
  3. pp. 29-64
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  1. 3. Women and Philanthropy in Brazil: An Overview
  2. Leilah Landim
  3. pp. 65-108
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  1. 4. The Norwegian Voluntary Sector and Civil Society in Transition: Women as a Catalyst of Deep-Seated Change
  2. Per Selle
  3. pp. 109-152
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  1. 5. Women and Philanthropy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia
  2. Shurlee Swain
  3. pp. 153-168
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  1. 6. Parallel Power Structures, Invisible Careers, and the Changing Nature of American Jewish Women's Philanthropy
  2. Susan M. Chambré
  3. pp. 169-190
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  1. 7. Women and Philanthropy in Egypt
  2. Amani Kandil
  3. pp. 191-224
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  1. 8. An Islamic Activist in Interwar Egypt
  2. Beth Baron
  3. pp. 225-244
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  1. 9. Women and Philanthropy in Palestinian and Egyptian Societies: The Contributions of Islamic Thought and the Strategy of National Survival
  2. Ghada Hashem Talhami
  3. pp. 245-270
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  1. 10. Women and Philanthropy in India
  2. Pushpa Sundar
  3. pp. 271-286
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  1. 11. Women and Philanthropy in South Korea from a Non-Western Perspective
  2. Hye Kyung Lee
  3. pp. 287-312
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  1. Notes on Contributors
  2. pp. 313-315
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  1. Back Cover
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