A new moral vision : gender, religion, and the changing purposes of American higher education, 1837-1917 / Andrea L. Turpin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turpin, Andrea Lindsay, author.

Series:

American institutions and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in higher education--United States--History--19th century.

Women in higher education.

Women in higher education--United States--History--20th century.

Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Education, Higher.

Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects--United States--History--20th century.

Universities and colleges--United States--Religion.

Universities and colleges.

Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects.

History.

United States.

Religion.

Universities and colleges--Religion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2016]

Contents:

Introduction : engendering ethical education

Reorienting righteousness : toward a new narrative of gender and religion in American higher education

Ideological origins of the women's college : Catharine Beecher, Mary Lyon, and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

Ideological origins of collegiate coeducation : Oberlin College as a sending city on a hill

Separate or joint education of the sexes? : religion, science, and class in national debates

The chief end of man and of woman : Princeton and Evelyn

A house divided? : Harvard and Radcliffe

Not to be ministered unto, but to minister : Wellesley College

I delight in the truth : Bryn Mawr College

Almost without money and without price to every young man and every young woman : the University of Michigan

Even an atheist does not desire his boy to be trained a materialist : the University of California

Serving the college and the nation : YMCAs and YWCAs on campus

Conclusion : trajectories and tradeoffs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501704789

1501704788

OCLC:

945121353