Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967 By Joan Marie Johnson

Abstract

Joan Johnson’s Funding Feminism is a welcome addition to the literature on women and philanthropy. Many studies document women’s work as leaders and members of voluntary associations; others illuminate women as effective fundraisers for causes such as abolition, war relief, temperance, and basic human needs. Funding Feminism examines wealthy women who underwrote social movements that were acutely female issues: suffrage, higher education for women, and birth control. Johnson’s work goes beyond biography by looking at a network of women and therefore allows for a deeper understanding of women’s “money and power.”