Women’s Higher Education in the United States: New Historical Perspectives

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This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s, these essays address the meaning diverse groups of women have made of their education or their exclusion from education, and delve deeply into how those experiences were shaped by concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin. Nash demonstrates how an examination of the history of women’s education can transform our understanding of educational institutions and processes more generally. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Thoughts on the History of Women’s Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction (Margaret A. Nash)....Pages 1-21 “She Pursued Her Life-Work”: The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800–1860 (Lucia McMahon)....Pages 23-43 “Cruel and Wicked Prejudice:” Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North (Kabria Baumgartner)....Pages 45-67 The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839–1850) (Kelly Ann Kolodny)....Pages 69-91 Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s–1990s (Huping Ling)....Pages 93-116 The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977 (Linda M. Perkins)....Pages 117-137 Research at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940 (Mary Ann Dzuback)....Pages 139-159 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 1945 (Kelly C. Sartorius)....Pages 161-183 From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman’s Educational Journey (Jennifer Talerico-Brown)....Pages 185-210 The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States (Kim Tolley)....Pages 211-232 Before Chicana Civil Rights: Three Generations of Mexican American Women in Higher Education in the Southwest, 1920–1965 (Victoria-María MacDonald, Alice Cook)....Pages 233-254 Building the New Scholarship of Women’s Higher Educational History, 1965–1985 (Linda Eisenmann)....Pages 255-276 “The Rest is All Drag”: Trans-gressive Women in Higher Education History (Jess Clawson)....Pages 277-295 Epilogue (Margaret A. Nash)....Pages 297-301 Back Matter ....Pages 303-313