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Zusatztext An important and interesting book which helps to build a more richly coloured picture of charity and welfare and to facilitate a necessary conversation between the stories of the beneficiaries of charitable activity and welfare, and the stories of their benefactors. Informationen zum Autor Eve Colpus is Lecturer in British and European History post-1850 at the University of Southampton! UK. A study of four female philanthropists during the interwar period, analysing the role their activity played in the making of modern British culture and Britain's relationship with the wider world. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Relationships2. Knowledge3. Identity4. Culture5. CommunicationConclusionBibliographyIndex...
