Bright epoch : women & coeducation in the American West / Andrea G. Radke-Moss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radke-Moss, Andrea G.

Series:

Women in the West

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women college students--West (U.S.).

Women college students.

Women--Education--West (U.S.).

Women.

Coeducation--West (U.S.).

Coeducation.

Sexism in higher education--West (U.S.).

Sexism in higher education.

Women--Education.

Physical Description:

xii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2008]

Contents:

1 Making a Welcome for Women Students: The Discourse of Coeducational Inclusion by Administrators and Students 21

2 The Place of Women Students: Reading the Language and Practices of Gender Separation 48

3 The Early Practice of Coeducation: Literary Societies as Laboratories for Separation and Inclusion 79

4 Women Students' Sociality: Building Relationships with Men and Women 102

5 Women's Course Work: Farm Wives, Finished Ladies, or Functioning Scientists? 143

6 Under the Gaze: Women's Physical Activity and Sport at Land-Grant Colleges 190

7 "The American Eagle in Bloomers": "Student-Soldieresses" and Women's Military Activity 223

8 Challenging Political Separation: Women's Rights Activism at Land-Grant Colleges and Universities 252

Conclusion: Bright Epoch: When the Fair Daughters Joined the Ranks 289

1 UAC students in chapel, ca. 1900 52

2 "The Way We Are Separated" 59

3 "Coeds Smoking at University of Nebraska" 72

4 "Dandelion Day at the University of Nebraska," ca. 1910 74

5 Student bicyclists at the University of Nebraska, ca. 1898 124

6 Male and female students socializing, ca. 1900 126

7 Women students in front of Benton Hall, ca. 1898 133

8 Willa Cather at University of Nebraska, 1891 139

9 Mary Beaumont Welch, ca. 1890s 148

10 OAC domestic science class, ca. 1905 150

11 First OAC graduating class, ca. 1870 154

12 OAC horticulture students, ca. 1900 158

13 "Plumbing 101," ca. 1915 162

14 UAC botany lab, ca. 1900 173

15 UAC commerce class, ca. 1900 182

16 Cyclone Bicycle Club, ca. 1892 199

17 Ina Gittings in mid-pole vault at the University of Nebraska, ca. 1906 201

18 "Silhouetteograph," University of Nebraska, ca. 1890s 205

19 Adelloyd Whiting's friends in the gymnasium showers, ca. 1898 207

20 OAC women's basketball team, 1900 214

21 Field hockey game at the University of Nebraska, 1913 or 1914 217

22 IAC women cadets, ca. 1893 226

23 IAC men and women cadets, ca. 1890s 233.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-341) and index.

ISBN:

9780803239654

0803239653

OCLC:

221147951