Feminism and voluntary action
Subtitle: Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876-1928
By: Linda Mahood.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230525603
Subjects: Jebb, Eglantyne; Save the Children Fund (Great Britain); Child welfare workers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Children's rights -- Great Britain; Feminism -- Great Britian -- History; Voluntarism -- Great Britian -- History
Genres: Biography
Description: "Eglantyne Jebb was a teacher, social investigator and founder of the Save the Children Fund. Her "Declaration of the Rights of the Child," adopted by League of Nations, shows evolution from Charity Organization Society model to philosophy of international mutual responsibility, childrens rights and humanitarianism"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Prologue: No Silk-Blouse Social WorkerThe Lady Bountiful and the Country Squire: Lessons in Life, Love and WoodcarvingRaising Rebel Daughters: Lessons for Lives of Social ActionEducating Eglantyne: The Young Lady of Lady Margaret HallRibbons and Trumpets: Toils and Troubles at Teacher Training CollegeHewing out my Future in Defiance to my Friends: The Life and Times of a Gentlewoman School MistressMatchmaking Matrons and the Misread Maidens of the Cambridge Charity Organization SocietyHonour thy Mother: Duty vs Free Unsheltered Life Fraught with Pitfalls and DangerThe Sisters and Social Action, A Perfect Jungle of Intrigues, Suspicion and Hypocrisies: The Early Save the Children Fund in Time of CrisisInternationalisation of Charity in Peacetime: Declaring the Rights of the Child.