Philanthropy and Settler Colonialism

This book, the first long-range history of the voluntary sector in Australia and the first internationally to compare philanthropy for Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in a settler society, explores how the race and gender ideologies embedded in philanthropy contributed to the construction of Australia's welfare state.

Author: A. O'Brien
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/15/2014
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781137440495

About the Author

Anne O'Brien is an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published widely in the fields of welfare, religion and women's and gender history. Her most recent monograph is God's Willing workers: Women and religion in Australia (2005).