Mrs. Russell Sage : Activism and Philanthropy in Guilded Age and Progressive Era America

這是一位統治階級女性的傳記，她在“鍍金時代”和“進步時代美國”中為自己創造了一種新的身份。一位妻子從她的強盜男爵丈夫Olivia Sage那裡獲得了社交地位，設法塑造了一種仁慈的形象，使她的公共事業成為可能。在她丈夫長達37年的陰影下，她扮演了維多利亞女王時代的職業，改革女性。

當Russell Sage於1906年去世時，他給她留下了巨額財富。作為婦女權利和財富責任的倡導者，為了道德改革和物質改善，她拿走了錢並用於自己的用途。支出取代了志願工作;選舉權集市和籌款活動讓位於最喜歡的事業的大量捐款。

This is the biography of a ruling-class woman who created a new identity for herself in Gilded Age and Progressive Era America. A wife who derived her social standing from her robber-baron husband, Olivia Sage managed to fashion an image of benevolence that made possible her public career. In her husband's shadow for 37 years, she took on the Victorian mantle of active, reforming womanhood.

When Russell Sage died in 1906, he left her a vast fortune. An advocate for the rights of women and the responsibilities of wealth, for moral reform and material betterment, she took the money and put it to her own uses. Spending replaced volunteer work; suffrage bazaars and fundraising fetes gave way to large donations to favourite causes.

As a widow, Olivia Sage moved in public with authority. She used her wealth to fund a wide spectrum of progressive reforms that had a lasting impact on American life, including her most significant philanthropy, the Russell Sage Foundation.

   Ruth Crocker  (Autor)

Publisher:Indiana University Press 

ISBN:    978-0253347121 

原價   US 49.95  台幣價 NT$1745