Reviews of Joan Marie Johnson. Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967; George Robb. Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
Department or Administrative Unit
History
Document Type
Book Review
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© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Historical Association. All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-2-2019
Journal
The American Historical Review
Abstract
As our mailboxes attest daily, social change requires financial support. But while small contributions from ordinary donors are always welcome, it is million-dollar checks that get the job done. Historian Joan Marie Johnson, in Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870–1967, catalogues the independent-minded heiresses who bankrolled key aspects of American women’s emancipation.
Not all American women who had money gave it away. Some were building a nest egg of their own.George Robb’s Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression examines those women whose purpose was to invest inthe stock market when it was unladylike to handle money.
Recommended Citation
Blair, K. J. (2019). [Review of the books Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement 1870–1967, by J.M. Johnson, and Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression by G. Robb. The American Historical Review, 124(2), 682–683. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz104
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