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Women’s Higher Education in the United States

New Historical Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Margaret A. Nash

    1. Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

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  • Brings together new research on the history of women’s education in the United States
  • Incorporates research on a wide range of places where women were educated including female seminaries, Catholic colleges, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
  • Includes perspectives of students and faculty to highlight a diverse range of views on the issue

Part of the book series: Historical Studies in Education (HSE)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Thoughts on the History of Women’s Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction

    • Margaret A. Nash
    Pages 1-21

  3. “She Pursued Her Life-Work”: The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800–1860

    • Lucia McMahon
    Pages 23-43

  4. “Cruel and Wicked Prejudice:” Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North

    • Kabria Baumgartner
    Pages 45-67

  5. 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

  6. Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s–1990s

    • Huping Ling
    Pages 93-116

  7. The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977

    • Linda M. Perkins
    Pages 117-137

  8. Research at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940

    • Mary Ann Dzuback
    Pages 139-159

  9. 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

  10. From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman’s Educational Journey

    • Jennifer Talerico-Brown
    Pages 185-210

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. Building the New Scholarship of Women’s Higher Educational History, 1965–1985

    • Linda Eisenmann
    Pages 255-276

  14. “The Rest is All Drag”: Trans-gressive Women in Higher Education History

    • Jess Clawson
    Pages 277-295

  15. Epilogue

    • Margaret A. Nash
    Pages 297-301

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 303-313
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Education, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

    Margaret A. Nash

About the editor

Margaret  A. Nash is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside, USA,  and the author of Higher Education for Women in the United States, 1780-1840, which won a Critics Choice award from the American Educational Studies Association. She has appeared on CNN for Women’s History Month, and has published in History of Education Quarterly and other journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Women’s Higher Education in the United States

  • Book Subtitle: New Historical Perspectives

  • Editors: Margaret A. Nash

  • Series Title: Historical Studies in Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59083-1Published: 25 August 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93534-5Published: 11 August 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59084-8Published: 24 August 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2945-7173

  • Series E-ISSN: 2945-7181

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 313

  • Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, History of Education, Gender and Education

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