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Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s

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Horowitz 'analyzes the architecture of each college as a way of understanding its social and cultural history. Blending the usual stuff of institutional history with a keen understanding of esthetics and design, Mrs. Horowitz shows how the physical plan of each college contained and implicit message about the way society perceived women, the limits placed on their aspirations, and the expectations about their relationship to one another.

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**** Reprint of the Knopf original of 1985 (which is distinguished by inclusion in BCL3.
Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-398) and index.
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ISBN:
9780870238697
Author:
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
Publisher:
University of Massachusetts Press
Author:
Horowitz, Helen Lefkowitz
Location:
Amherst :
Subject:
Women's Studies
Subject:
Higher
Subject:
History
Subject:
Adult & Continuing Education
Subject:
Women's colleges
Subject:
Women's colleges -- United States -- History.
Subject:
Women's Studies - General
Subject:
Education-General
Copyright:
1993
Edition Number:
2
Series Volume:
7
Publication Date:
19931131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
448
Dimensions:
9.24x6.17x1.17 in. 1.55 lbs.
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