Books by Linsey McGoey
“It’s a really good entry into contemporary criticisms of big, white male American philanthropy…She wrote her critique of philanthropy before all the men did but, as is often the case, it’s the male voices that get heard first. I make sure my students read her book because it came out a few years before Rob Reich’s Just Giving and Anand Giridharadas’s Winners Take All and so on. And because it’s scholarly, it’s more robust than some of the more populist critiques.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Linsey McGoey were recommended
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No Such Thing as a Free Gift: The Gates Foundation and the Price of Philanthropy
by Linsey McGoey -
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Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
by Edgar Villanueva -
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Giving to Help, Helping to Give: The Context and Politics of African Philanthropy
Tade Aina and Bhekinkosi Moyo (editors) -
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Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving: Black Women's Philanthropy during Jim Crow
by Tyrone McKinley Freeman -
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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
by Joan Marie Johnson
The best books on Philanthropy, recommended by Beth Breeze
The best books on Philanthropy, recommended by Beth Breeze
Philanthropy is everywhere—and that means we need an informed debate about what it is and how to do it better, rather than resorting to populist critiques of donors and their motives, argues Beth Breeze, Director of the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent. Here she recommends five books to help encourage a more careful and nuanced look at philanthropy, an activity that affects all of us every day but is particularly critical in the lives of the most vulnerable.
