Cultures of Charity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultures of Charity write by Nicholas Terpstra. This book was released on 2013-02-14. Cultures of Charity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renaissance debates about politics and gender led to pioneering forms of poor relief, devised to help women get a start in life. These included orphanages for illegitimate children and forced labor in workhouses, but also women’s shelters and early forms of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
Cultures of Charity
Cultures of Charity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultures of Charity write by Nicholas Terpstra. This book was released on 2013-02-15. Cultures of Charity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women’s shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on features of women’s poverty like illegitimate births, hunger, unemployment, and domestic violence. Signal features of the reforms, from forced labor to new instruments of saving and lending, were devised specifically to help young women get a start in life. Cultures of Charity is the first book to see women’s poverty as the key factor driving changes to poor relief. These changes generated intense political debates as proponents of republican democracy challenged more elitist and authoritarian forms of government emerging at the time. Should taxes fund poor relief? Could forced labor help build local industry? Focusing on Bologna, Terpstra looks at how these fights around politics and gender generated pioneering forms of poor relief, including early examples of maternity benefits, unemployment insurance, food stamps, and credit union savings plans.
Ribbon Culture
Ribbon Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ribbon Culture write by Sarah E.H. Moore. This book was released on 2008-01-17. Ribbon Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the history, meaning, and sociological implications of awareness campaigns, seeing them as personal displays of compassion in a culture where empathy is a by-word for authenticity. It also highlights how charities use awareness campaigns to reach their audience, and the transformation of charity into a commercial enterprise.
Religion and Charity
Religion and Charity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Charity write by Robert P. Weller. This book was released on 2018. Religion and Charity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.
Roman Charity
Roman Charity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roman Charity write by Jutta Gisela Sperling. This book was released on 2016-10-31. Roman Charity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. »Roman Charity« investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The volume explores the popularity of a topic that appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the concept of Catholic »charity«, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It analyses why early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene »good to think with« and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality. Jutta Gisela Sperling discusses the different visual contexts in which »Roman Charity« flourished and reconstructs contemporary horizons of expectation by reference to literary sources, medical practice, and legal culture.
