Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
1. Thoughts on the History of Women's Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction 2. "She Pursued her Life-Work" The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800-1860
3. "Cruel and Wicked Prejudice" Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North 4. The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839-1850) 5. Chinese Female Students in the United States 6. The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University, 1926-1977 7. Research at Women's Colleges, 1890-1940 8. A Coeducational Pathway to Political and Economic Citizenship: Women's Student Government and a Philosophy and Practice of Women's U.S. Higher Coeducation Between 1890 and 1945 9. From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman's Educational Journey 10. The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States
11. Before Chicana Civil Rights: Three Generations of Mexican American Women in Higher Education in the Southwest, 1920-1965 12. Building the New Scholarship of Women's Higher Educational History, 1965-1985 13. "The Rest is All Drag" Trans-gressive Women in Higher Education History Epilogue