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Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World - Between Self and Other (Hardcover)
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Female Philanthropy in the Interwar World - Between Self and Other (Hardcover)
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Female philanthropy was at the heart of transformative thinking
about society and the role of individuals in the interwar period.
In Britain, in the aftermath of the First World War,
professionalization; the authority of the social sciences; mass
democracy; internationalism; and new media sounded the future and,
for many, the death knell of elite practices of benevolence. Eve
Colpus tells a new story about a world in which female
philanthropists reshaped personal models of charity for modern
projects of social connectedness, and new forms of cultural and
political encounter. Centering the stories of four remarkable
British-born women - Evangeline Booth; Lettice Fisher; Emily
Kinnaird; and Muriel Paget - Colpus recaptures the breadth of the
social, cultural and political influence of women's philanthropy
upon practices of social activism. Female Philanthropy in the
Interwar World is not only a new history of women's civic agency in
the interwar period, but also a study of how female philanthropists
explored approaches to identification and cultural difference that
emphasized friendship in relation to interwar modernity. Richly
detailed, the book's perspective on women's social interventionism
offers a new reading of the centrality of personal relationships to
philanthropy that can inform alternative models of giving today.
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