Sheila C Moeschen: 1 book

Book cover of Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Acts of Conspicuous Compassion

Performance Culture and American Charity Practices

by Sheila C Moeschen
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013

Charity has been a pervasive and influential concept in American culture, and has also served an important ideological purpose, helping people articulate their sense of individual and national identity. But what, exactly, compels our benevolence? In a social moment when countless worthy causes and...
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