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Feminism and Voluntary Action

Eglantyne Jebb and Save the Children, 1876–1928

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  • © 2009

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  1. Linda Mahood

    1. University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Prologue: No Silk-Blouse Social Worker

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Lady Bountiful and the Country Squire: Lessons in Life, Love and Woodcarving

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 13-33

  4. Raising Rebel Daughters: Lessons for Lives of Social Action

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 34-55

  5. Educating Eglantyne: The Young Lady of Lady Margaret Hall

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 56-72

  6. Ribbons and Trumpets: Toils and Troubles at Teachers College

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 73-87

  7. ‘Hewing out my Future in Defiance to my Friends’: The Life and Times of a Gentlewoman School Mistress

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 88-104

  8. Matchmaking Matrons and the Misread Maidens of the Cambridge Charity Organization Society

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 105-120

  9. Honour thy Mother: Duty vs ‘Free Unsheltered Life Fraught with Pitfalls and Danger’

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 121-141

  10. The Sisters and Social Action

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 142-165

  11. ‘A Perfect Jungle of Intrigues, Suspicion and Hypocrisies’: The Early Save the Children Fund in Time of Crisis

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 166-184

  12. ‘Internationalization’ of Charity in Peacetime: Declaring the Rights of the Child

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 185-205

  13. Epilogue: The Legacy of a Rebel Daughter and Early Save the Children Women

    • Linda Mahood
    Pages 206-216

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 217-291
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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, children's rights and humanitarianism.

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  • University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Linda Mahood

About the author

LINDA MAHOOD is Associate Professor of History at the University of Guelph in Canada. She is author of The Magdalenes and Policing Gender Class and Family and articles in history of gender, sexuality history of juvenile delinquency and children's welfare agencies.

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