Word: loeser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...LOESER'S CASE studies of volunteering are as one-sides as her philosophic discussions. There is nothing wrong with being pro-volunteer; there is no excuse for collecting a series of public relations type examples of the benefits of volunteering, while blissfully ignoring its pitfalls. And these pitfalls are well within the area of self-help that Loeser is concentrating on; there is no need even to delve into economic and social analysis...
...every woman who found a successful job contact through volunteering, there is the woman who found herself manipulated by a paid professional coordinator. Despite Loeser's hope that women will be regarded as volunteer professionals, there is still professional snobbery that women have to contend with. For every successful collaboration between volunteer and agency, there is still exploitation (a woman who raises money for the high school hockey team finds that the following year the school board, impressed with her efforts, allocates no money to the hockey team, giving it all to the football team instead...
This is not to say that there should be just a balanced "pro-con" set of examples. A one-sided presentation like this is a great deal less helpful to women facing real-world situations and not the idyllic future Loeser envisions...
...area where she could possibly have been of real help--the section on resources and appendix of agencies--Loeser sticks closely to her home base. She is co-director of the Civic Center and Clearing House in Boston, and an ex-research scholar at the Radcliffe Institute...
Such intense localization is a problem in the body of Loeser's analysis as well as in the resource appendix. Had she stepped back from her Cambridge-Boston base a little, her conclusions may well have been less facile...