Acknowledgments
Introduction: Women and Philanthropy in Education—A Problem of Conceptions Andrea Walton
Part I. Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Foundations
1. Teaching as Philanthropy: Catharine Beecher and the Hartford Female Seminary Frances Huehls
2. Philanthropy and Social Case Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Russell Sage Foundation, 1909–1928 Sarah Henry Lederman
3. Southern Poor Whites and Higher Education: Martha Berry's Philanthropic Strategies in the Building of Berry College Victoria-María MacDonald and Eleanore Lenington
4. Creative Financing in Social Science: Women Scholars and Early Research Mary Ann Dzuback
5. Considering Her Influence: Sydnor H. Walker and Rockefeller Support for Social Work, Social Scientists, and Universities in the South Amy E. Wells
6. Brokering Old and New Philanthropic Traditions: Women's Continuing Education in the Cold War Era Linda Eisenmann
Part II. Women's Philanthropy as an Agent of Social and Educational Change
7. American Philanthropy and Women's Education Exported: Missionary Teachers in Turkey Roberta Wollons
8. Sisters in Service: African American Sororities and Philanthropic Support of Education Marybeth Gasman
9. "Valuable and Legitimate Services": Black and White Women's Philanthropy through the PTA Christine Woyshner
10. Women's Philanthropy for Women's Art in America, Past and Present Karen J. Blair
Part III. The Politics of Philanthropy in Women's Education: Race, Class, and Gender
11. "Nothing More for Men's Colleges": The Educational Philanthropy of Mrs. Russell Sage Ruth Crocker
12. The Texture of Benevolence: Northern Philanthropy, Southern African American Women, and Higher Education, 1930–1950 Jayne R. Beilke
13. "Contributing to the Most Promising Peaceful Revolution in Our Time": The American Women's Scholarship for Japanese Women, 1893–1941 Linda L. Johnson
14. Supporting Females in a Male Field: Philanthropy for Women's Engineering Education Amy Sue Bix
Contributors
Index