Female philanthropy in the interwar world: between self and other

Female philanthropy was at the heart of transformative thinking about society and the role of individuals in the interwar period.

In Britain, in the aftermath of the First World War, professionalisation; the authority of the social sciences; mass democracy; internationalism; and new media sounded the future and, for many, the death knell of elite practices of benevolence.

Eve Colpus tells a new story about a world in which female philanthropists reshaped personal models of charity for modern projects of social connectedness, and new forms of cultural and political encounter.