Women, philanthropy, and civil society
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書誌事項
Women, philanthropy, and civil society
(Philanthropic studies, 18)
Indiana University Press, c2001
- : cloth
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  埼玉
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  東京
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  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
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  オランダ
  スウェーデン
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注記
Includes bibliographical references
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This volume, which grows out of a research project on women and philanthropy sponsored by the Centre 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 benefit) in shaping non-governmental organisations (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. 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.
In approaching the subject of women as shapers of civil society, each of the contributors shares certain basic understandings of the environment in which civil society is formed. For example, they report that public-private partnerships are pervasive in both decentralised states such as the United States and highly centralised ones such as France. They discuss how in the 19th century private donations and volunteerism were forms of invisible political activity for women that functioned as a form of subsidy to state programs. Often, the roots of state welfare organisations lay in volunteer and religious institutions and that women acted on behalf of the state in caring for those in need. Colonialism may have helped foster local women's voluntary organisations; elsewhere the consolidation of nation-states effectively suppressed the activities of volunteer or non-governmental activities in favour of state approved aid. The resurgence of NGOs in the 1980s and 1990s has been fuelled in part by women's organisations and the rise of feminist agendas. Certainly, the essays in this book suggest that their influence has been pervasive.
The research reported here also reveals previously hidden roles played by elite and middle-class women in creating wealth and providing services. Often these services were delivered through religious organisations, though each religious tradition fostered distinct cultures of giving, and religion is important in all of these essays. 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 organisations 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.
目次
- Table of Contents - Introduction - Kathleen D. McCarthy
- 1. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland - Maria Luddy
- 2. Women and Philanthropy in France - From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries - Evelyne Diebolt
- 3. Women and Philanthropy in Brazil - An Overview - Leilah Landim
- 4. The Norwegian Voluntary Sector and Civil Society in Transition - Women as a Catalyst of Deep-Seated Change - Per Selle
- 5. Women and Philanthropy in Colonial and Post-Colonial Australia - Shurlee Swain
- 6. Parallel Power Structures, Invisible Careers, and the Changing Nature of American Jewish Women's Philanthropy - Susan M. Chambre [accent grave]
- 7. Women and Philanthropy in Egypt - Amani Kandil
- 8. An Islamic Activist in Interwar Egypt - Beth Baron
- 9. Women and Philanthropy in Palestinian and Egyptian Societies - The Contributions of Islamic Thought and the Strategy of National Survival - Ghada Hashem Talhami
- 10. Women and Philanthropy in India - Pushpa Sundar
- 11. Women and Philanthropy in South Korea from a Non-Western Perspective - Hye Kyung Lee
- Notes on Contributors
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