Women and Philanthropy

Bordt, Rebecca L. 1998. The Structure of Women’s Nonprofit Organizations. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Clift, Elayne, ed. 2007. Women, Philanthropy, and Social Change: Visions for a Just Society. 2nd ed. Lebanon, NH: Tufts University Press/University Press of New England.
Diefendorf , Barbara B. 2002. From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dinan, Susan E. 2006. Women and Poor Relief in Seventeenth-Century France: The Early History of the Daughters of Charity. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.
Elliott, Dorice Williams. 2002. The Angel Out of the House: Philanthropy and Gender in Nineteenth-Century England. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press.
Luddy, Maria. 1995. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century Ireland. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
McCarthy, Kathleen D., ed. 1990. Lady Bountiful Revisited: Women, Philanthropy, and Power. Piscataway, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
-—-. 1991. Women’s Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
-—-, ed. 2001. Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Morris, Lucy. 2009. Valuable Charities, Invaluable Women: A Feminist Critique of the Role of Women in Charitable Organizations. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag.
Prelinger, Catherine M. 1987. Charity, Challenge, and Change: Religious Dimensions of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Women’s Movement in Germany. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press
-—-. 1996. Episcopal Women: Gender, Spirituality, and Commitment in an American Mainline Denomination. New York: Oxford University Press.
Preston, Margaret H. 2004. Charitable Words: Women, Philanthropy, and the Language of Charity in Nineteenth-Century Dublin. New York: Praeger Publishers.
Shaw-Hardy, Sondra C. and Martha A. Taylor. 1995. Reinventing Fundraising: Realizing the Potential of Women’s Philanthropy. San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass.
Taylor, Martha A. and Sondra Shaw-Hardy. 2006. The Transformative Power of Women’s Philanthropy: New Directions for Philanthropic Fundraising. San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass.
Walton Andrea, ed. 2005. Women and Philanthropy in Education. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.