1 option
Public medievalists, racism, and suffrage in the American women's college / Mary Dockray-Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dockray-Miller, Mary, 1965- author.
- Series:
- Palgrave pivot
- New Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Education (Higher)--United States--History--20th century.
- Women.
- College teaching--United States--History--20th century.
- College teaching.
- Medievalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Medievalism.
- Women--Suffrage.
- History.
- Feminism and higher education.
- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
- Women--Education (Higher).
- United States.
- Medievalism--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Civilization, Anglo-Saxon--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
- Feminism and higher education--United States--History--20th century.
- Women--Suffrage--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Racism.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 153 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
- Summary:
- "This study, part of growing interest in the study of 19th-century medievalism and Anglo-Saxonism, closely examines the intersections of race, class, and gender in the teaching of Anglo-Saxon in the American women's colleges before World War I, interrogating the ways that the positioning of Anglo-Saxon as the historical core of the collegiate English curriculum also silently perpetuated mythologies about Manifest Destiny, male superiority, and the primacy of northern European ancestry in United States culture at large. Analysis of college curricula and biographies of female professors demonstrates the ways that women used Anglo-Saxon as a means to professional opportunity and political expression, especially in the suffrage movement, even as that legitimacy and respectability was freighted with largely unarticulated assumptions of racist and sexist privilege."--Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-147) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 3319697056
- 9783319697055
- OCLC:
- 1015856522
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.