Ladies Bountiful: Organized Women’s Benevolence in Early 19th-century America

Melder, Keith

doi:10.1515/9783110971118.17

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“…The same seems to have been true in England. Melder (1967) wrote about English women's organized benevolence in a similar time frame, attributing the influence of the English benevolent movement to spreading the message that women were eminently qualified to organize for service. He credited English reformers like Hannah More, of the English evangelical movement, for bringing the ideas across the Atlantic (p. 234).…”

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Lady Boards of Managers: Subjugated Legacies of Governance and Administration

Netting

O’Connor

2005

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Three traditions of women’s organizations emerged in the 1800s: benevolence, reform, and rights. This article focuses primarily on women who founded the forerunners of today’s nonprofit health and human service agencies. Using Richmond, Virginia, as an example, it draws from historical documents, as well as the literature, to reframe the importance of what Lady Boards of Managers did in shaping the governance and administration of early human service organizations. Of particular importance is the invisibility of their actions, which were extraordinary for the times in which they lived, in the theories and practice models that drive current macro-social work practice.

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Section: Lady Managers In Feminist Historiesmentioning

confidence: 99%