Women’s Higher Education in the United States

Women’s Higher Education in the United States
Title Women’s Higher Education in the United States PDF eBook
Author Margaret A. Nash
Publisher Springer
Pages 313
Release 2017-08-24
Genre Education
ISBN 113759084X

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This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s, these essays address the meaning diverse groups of women have made of their education or their exclusion from education, and delve deeply into how those experiences were shaped by concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin. Nash demonstrates how an examination of the history of women’s education can transform our understanding of educational institutions and processes more generally.




Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840

Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840
Title Women's Education in the United States, 1780-1840 PDF eBook
Author M. Nash
Publisher Springer
Pages 210
Release 2016-04-30
Genre Education
ISBN 1137050357

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Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. Winner of 2005 American Educational Studies Association (AESA) Critic's Choice Award, this is a groundbreaking from Margaret Nash examining the development of women's education.




Women in Academe

Women in Academe
Title Women in Academe PDF eBook
Author Mariam K. Chamberlain
Publisher Russell Sage Foundation
Pages 444
Release 1989-03-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1610441141

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The role of women in higher education, as in many other settings, has undergone dramatic changes during the past two decades. This significant period of progress and transition is definitively assessed in the landmark volume, Women in Academe. Crowded out by returning veterans and pressed by social expectations to marry early and raise children, women in the 1940s and 1950s lost many of the educational gains they had made in previous decades. In the 1960s women began to catch up, and by the 1970s women were taking rapid strides in academic life. As documented in this comprehensive study, the combined impact of the women's movement and increased legislative attention to issues of equality enabled women to make significant advances as students and, to a lesser extent, in teaching and academic administration. Women in Academe traces the phenomenal growth of women's studies programs, the notable gains of women in non-traditional fields, the emergence of campus women's centers and research institutes, and the increasing presence of minority and re-entry women. Also examined are the uncertain future of women's colleges and the disappointingly slow movement of women into faculty and administrative positions. This authoritative volume provides more current and extensive data on its subject than any other study now available. Clearly and objectively, it tells an impressive story of progress achieved—and of important work still to be done.




Women's Colleges in the United States

Women's Colleges in the United States
Title Women's Colleges in the United States PDF eBook
Author Irene Harwarth
Publisher DIANE Publishing
Pages 134
Release 1997
Genre
ISBN 0788143247

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Women's colleges have had a long and prestigious role in the education of American women. This volume offers insights into the continuing significant role of women's colleges in higher education. It provides a brief history of women's colleges in the U.S. in the context of social and legislative issues that have affected the country, examines how women's colleges have managed to survive in an era of coeducational institutions and equal opportunities in education, and identifies the unique features of women's colleges that make them attractive to young women. Charts and tables. Extensive bibliography.




A History of Women's Education in the United States

A History of Women's Education in the United States
Title A History of Women's Education in the United States PDF eBook
Author Thomas Woody
Publisher
Pages 674
Release 1929
Genre Women
ISBN 9780598839251

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This massive work on women's education from elementary through higher education is still used as a reference book on women in education and the professions.




In Pursuit of Knowledge

In Pursuit of Knowledge
Title In Pursuit of Knowledge PDF eBook
Author Kabria Baumgartner
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 301
Release 2022-04
Genre Education
ISBN 1479816728

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Winner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar's Book Award Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society Uncovers the hidden role of girls and women in the desegregation of American education The story of school desegregation in the United States often begins in the mid-twentieth-century South. Drawing on archival sources and genealogical records, Kabria Baumgartner uncovers the story’s origins in the nineteenth-century Northeast and identifies a previously overlooked group of activists: African American girls and women. In their quest for education, African American girls and women faced numerous obstacles—from threats and harassment to violence. For them, education was a daring undertaking that put them in harm’s way. Yet bold and brave young women such as Sarah Harris, Sarah Parker Remond, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Mapps Douglass persisted. In Pursuit of Knowledge argues that African American girls and women strategized, organized, wrote, and protested for equal school rights—not just for themselves, but for all. Their activism gave rise to a new vision of womanhood: the purposeful woman, who was learned, active, resilient, and forward-thinking. Moreover, these young women set in motion equal-school-rights victories at the local and state level, and laid the groundwork for further action to democratize schools in twentieth-century America. In this thought-provoking book, Baumgartner demonstrates that the confluence of race and gender has shaped the long history of school desegregation in the United States right up to the present.




Women's Education in Early Modern Europe

Women's Education in Early Modern Europe
Title Women's Education in Early Modern Europe PDF eBook
Author Barbara Whitehead
Publisher Routledge
Pages 239
Release 2012-10-12
Genre Education
ISBN 1135580944

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This book chronicles 300 years of women's education during this time. Barabara Whitehead examines this history from a feminist perspective, pointing to the subversive actions of the women of this period that led to the formation of academia as we know it.