Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society / / edited by Kathleen D. McCarthy.

• TeilnehmendeR: McCarthy, Kathleen D.
• Place / Publishing House: Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 2001.; ©2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Philanthropic studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of 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. Chambre -- 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.