Women's higher education in the United States : new historical perspectives /: new historical perspectives. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret A. Nash, editor.
• Editors: Nash, Margaret A, 1959-
• Contents: Women's Higher Education in the United States; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Thoughts on the History of Women's Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction; Thinking Theoretically; Foucault and the Sinews of Power; Foucault and Moral Orthopedics; Who Is Woman?; An Overview of This Volume; Outline of Chapters; Notes; 2 "She Pursued Her Life-Work": The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800-1860; Notes. 3 "Cruel and Wicked Prejudice:" Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum NorthNotes; 4 The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839-1850); Development of Massachusetts State Normal Schools; Formal, Endorsed Curriculum; Less Constrained, Informal Curriculum; Concluding Reflections; Notes; 5 Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s-1990s; Pioneer Chinese Female Students: 1881-1930s; Wartime and Postwar Chinese Female Students: 1940s-1950s. Contemporary Chinese Female Students: 1960s-1990sConclusion; Notes; 6 The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926-1977; The First Generation of Black Women Professoriate; The Fight for Gender Equity; Women's Faculty Club; Conclusion; Notes; 7 Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940; Vassar College: History and Economics; Mount Holyoke: History, Economics and Sociology; Smith College: History and Economics; Goucher College: History, Economics, and Sociology; Conclusion; Notes. 8 A Coeducational Pathway to Political & Economic Citizenship: Women's Student Government and a Philosophy and Practice of Women's U.S. Higher Coeducation Between 1890 and 1945Coeducation and Deans of Women: A Brief History; Adopting a Dyad of Women's Governance; Implementing the Governance Dyad; Formalizing Women's Governance; Feminist Activism & Citizenship Preparation in Women's Governance; Political Citizenship and Suffrage; Economic Citizenship: Preparing College Women for Careers Through Women's Governance; Conclusion; Notes. 9 From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman's Educational JourneyBackground: Indian Education; Choctaw Experiences; Reform; Indianness as a Commodity; Beginning her Journey, the Story of Cleo Caudell; Opening Doors; Merging Paths; Moving West; Making Connections; Changing Lives?; Notes; 10 The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States; Patriarchal Bargains and the Sisters in America; The Mission, Agency, and Independence of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur; Changing Demographics and Vatican II.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 313 pages)
• Subjects: 376.650973/09034; Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 19th century; Women -- Education (Higher) -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Gender identity in education; EDUCATION -- General; Gender identity in education; Women -- Education (Higher); United States; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137590848
• Related ISBNs: 113759084X; 1137590831; 9781137590831
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 11, 2017).
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