Books by Susan Ostrander

How community influences contribute to civic and political engagement in a city undergoing rapid change

Interviews the women in one US Region to study their roles, activities, and self-images. The author shows that although these women are economically and socially powerful, they are for the most part, unliberated, being subservient to their husbands and to their duty to bear and raise children.

Details the inner workings of a democratically organized philanthropy, where funding decisions are made by community activists. This book tells a story of organizational change as the Fund moved from an informal collective to a more formal structure; it is also the story of a struggle to build a multi-race, multi-class, gender-equal organization.