In the company of educated women : a history of women and higher education in America
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xxi, 298 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
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 such as Judith Murray and Mary Wollstonecraft, educators Mary Lyon and Catherine Beecher, and opponents like Dr. E.H. Clarke. Other topics include: the development of antebellum academies, the careers of their graduates, the push for women's colleges and coeducation, extracurricular college life, the development of home economics, and the Catholic, black, immigrant, and Jewish experiences. ISBN 0-300-03314-1: $25.00
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index
1. A forbidden world -- 2. Boring from within: a beginning in the academies of the republic -- 3. The utility of their educations, 1800-1860 -- 4. The push into higher education -- 5. Who went to college? -- 6. Women and the modernizing of liberal education, 1860-1920 -- 7. Dimensions of the collegiate experience -- 8. After college, what? -- 9. The collegiate education of women: its plural strands, 1920-1940 -- 10. The first modern college women: their expectations in the 1920s and 1930s -- 11. A public debate for college women: 1920-1944 -- 12. The promises of liberal education -- forgotten and fulfilled -- Afterthoughts
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 such as Judith Murray and Mary Wollstonecraft, educators Mary Lyon and Catherine Beecher, and opponents like Dr. E.H. Clarke. Other topics include: the development of antebellum academies, the careers of their graduates, the push for women's colleges and coeducation, extracurricular college life, the development of home economics, and the Catholic, black, immigrant, and Jewish experiences. ISBN 0-300-03314-1: $25.00
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index
1. A forbidden world -- 2. Boring from within: a beginning in the academies of the republic -- 3. The utility of their educations, 1800-1860 -- 4. The push into higher education -- 5. Who went to college? -- 6. Women and the modernizing of liberal education, 1860-1920 -- 7. Dimensions of the collegiate experience -- 8. After college, what? -- 9. The collegiate education of women: its plural strands, 1920-1940 -- 10. The first modern college women: their expectations in the 1920s and 1930s -- 11. A public debate for college women: 1920-1944 -- 12. The promises of liberal education -- forgotten and fulfilled -- Afterthoughts
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