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The history of women's education in the United States presents a continuous effort to move from the periphery to the mainstream, and this book examines both formal institutions and informal opportunities for girls and women. Not only were women long prevented from receiving an education because of their gender, but their formal educational opportunities were also greatly affected by race, class, and ethnicity. Denied formal education early on, women...
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"American women had to battle for property rights and suffrage, and they also had to fight for education. This remarkable struggle is now captured in a volume that not only traces the progression of girls' literacy but also offers insightful perspectives on social mores regarding gender in U.S. history." "Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present covers young women's educational activities, from being restricted to reading...
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Publisher's description: The Science Education of American Girls provides a comparative analysis of the science education of adolescent boys and girls, and analyzes the evolution of girls' scientific interests from the antebellum era through the twentieth century. Kim Tolley expands the understanding of the structural and cultural obstacles that emerged to transform what, in the early nineteenth century, was regarded as a "girl's subject." As the...
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"Twenty years ago, all-girl schools seemed headed for extinction, a minor footnote in the broad story of American education. Today they are experiencing a dramatic revival. In this book, Ilana DeBare interweaves the first complete history of girls' schools in America with her own personal story of cofounding an all-girl school in Oakland, California, in 1999. A rich chronicle of daily life at girls' schools over the past two hundred years, Where Girls...
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Studying with her brother at home, Maria Martin Bachman learned enough "to draw the botanical backgrounds for many of Audubon's famous bird paintings." Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps taught science in a women's seminary, "and, at the urging of her students, sought admittance to the Rensselaer School in Troy." Louisa Allen Gregory developed a "domestic science" curriculum at the University of Illinois which was the forerunner for the home economics movement...
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Born out of centuries of conflict and experimentation, America's public school system is one of the nation's most significant but still unfinished achievements. This four part series, narrated by Academy Award winning actress Meryl Streep, is a compelling odyssey that weaves archival footage, rare interviews, and on site coverage into an unprecedented portrait of public education in America.
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Recounts the remarkable achievements of women who dared to defy customs, break legal barriers, and endure hardship and discrimination in order to provide education for girls, young children, female teachers, homemakers, disabled students, the immigrant poor, and African American youth--the people excluded from traditional institutions of their day. Excerpts from the women's own writings are provided as well as discussion of their unique teaching methods....
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"Junctures in Women's Leadership: Higher Education illuminates the careers of twelve women leaders whose experiences reveal the complexities of contemporary academic leadership through the intersection of gender, race, and institutional culture. The chapters combine interviews and research to create distinct case studies that identify the obstacles that challenged each woman's leadership, and the strategies deployed to bring about resolution. The...
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"Taking Women Seriously closely examines successful women's colleges to identify their distinctive characteristics and determine how these characteristics contribute to the success of their graduates."--BOOK JACKET. "This work stresses that what works at women's colleges can be applied to coeducational institutions of higher education. The authors contend that all colleges should incorporate these important features in their campus environments and...
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"In the popular imagination, American women during the time between the end of World War II and the 1960s--the era of the so-called "feminine mystique"--were ultraconservative and passive. College Women in the Nuclear Age takes a fresh look at these women, showing them actively searching for their place in the world while engaging with the larger intellectual and political movements of the times. Drawing from the letters and diaries of young women...
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"'Surprising and richly satisfying' (Megan Marshall); 'Beautifully crafted ... subtle, polished, and poised' (Stacy Schiff); In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassadors--Sutematsu Yamakawa,...
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The Rise and Fall of the Sportswoman examines health and fitness advice for American women in the years 1860-1940. It describes the factors that propelled the sportswoman to the level of a highly visible cultural symbol. Blending together medical, educational, social, and cultural history, it also discusses how this symbol eventually collapsed, all but disappearing from the landscape of American social thought.
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This is a historical overview of women's higher education. Solomon explores women's struggles for access to institutions, the dimensions of collegiate experience, the effects of education on women's life choices, and the connection between feminism and women's educational advancement. She shows how the interaction of women's aspirations with outside forces both hindered and helped women in the sphere of higher education. The author treats theorists...
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Classics and Feminism is the first book-length study of the impact of modern feminism on the discipline and profession of classics in the United States. Combining a wide-ranging overview of historical and current developments with in-depth analysis and examples, the book has relevance for anyone interested in the role of feminism in the academy. Because the history of classics has been so deeply implicated in androcentric structures of knowledge and...
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Monograph on the history (1835-1975) of sex discrimination in educational opportunity and employment opportunity for woman worker physicians in the USA - covers the education of women in medicine, notably aspects of enrolment in higher education and women's rights, as well as occupational organization. Illustrations, references and statistical tables.
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This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of...
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