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Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830

Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830 Kathleen D. McCarthy is associate professor of history and Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. She is the author of Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, 1849-1929 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982).

Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.

a b c d e f McCarthy, Kathleen D. (1991). Women's culture : American philanthropy and art, 1830–1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. p. 221. ISBN 9780226555843. Retrieved December 28, 2014. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Doubleday and Company New York, 1978. a b "The Whitney Museum of American Art".

Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930: ISBN 9780226555843 (978-0-226-55584-3) Softcover, University of Chicago Press, 1993. Founded in 1997, BookFinder.

In Kathleen D. McCarthy (E., Lady bountiful revisited: Women, philanthropy andpower. McCarthy, K. D. Women’s culture: American philanthropy and art, 1830–1930. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. (1993). The Ms. Foundation: A case study in feminist fundraising (Working Paper). New York: Center for the Study of Philanthropy. Florence Kelley and the nature’s work: The rise of women’s political culture, 1830–1900. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press

Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930. Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830

Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930. by Kathleen D. McCarthy. Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830.

American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930. Published February 15, 1993 by University Of Chicago Press.