History of women in the United States. 12, Education : historical articles on women's lives and activities / edited with an introduction by Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cott, Nancy F., editor, writer of foreword.

Series:

History of Women in the United States ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Education--United States.

Women.

Women--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (481 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Munich, [Germany] : K. G. Saur, 1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Part of a fully indexed 20-volume collection which gathers together significant research contributions on the social, religious and political history of women in the United States, from colonial times to the 1990s.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Series Preface

Introduction

Education

Equally Their Due: The Education of the Planter Daughter in the Early Republic / CLINTON, CATHERINE

Mask of Oppression: The Female Seminary Movement in the United States / MELDER, KEITH

What, Then, is the American: This New Woman? / SCOTT, ANNE FIROR

The Ever Widening Circle: The Diffusion of Feminist Values from the Troy Female Seminary, 1822-1872 / SCOTT, ANNE FIROR

"Embodied Selves": The Rise and Development of Concern for Physical Education, Active Games and Recreation for American Women, 1776-1865 / PARK, ROBERTA J.

Coeducation of the Sexes at Oberlin College: A Study of Social Ideas in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America / HOGELAND, RONALD W.

The Impact of the "Cult of True Womanhood" on the Education of Black Women / PERKINS, LINDA M.

Self-Help Programs As Educative Activities of Black Women in the South, 1895-1925: Focus on Four Key Areas / NEVERDON-MORTON, CYNTHIA

Domestication As Reform: A Study of the Socialization of Wayward Girls, 1856-1905 / BRENZEL, BARBARA

Sex, Science and Education / TRECKER, JANICE LAW

Homeopathy and Sexual Equality: The Controversy over Coeducation at Cincinnati's Pulte Medical College, 1873-1879 / BARLOW, WILLIAM / POWELL, DAVID O.

Expansion and Exclusion: A History of Women in American Higher Education / GRAHAM, PATRICIA ALBJERG

Educating Indian Girls at Nonreservation Boarding Schools, 1878-1920 / TRENNERT, ROBERT A.

Guest Editorial: The Impact of Black Women in Education: An Historical Overview / COLLIER-THOMAS, BETTYE

Young Women and the City: Adolescent Deviance and the Transformation of Educational Policy, 1870-1960 / SEDLAK, MICHAEL W.

Doctorates for American Women, 1868-1907 / ROSSITER, MARGARET W.

Here Was Fellowship: A Social Portrait of Academic Women at Wellesley College, 1895-1920 / PALMIERI, PATRICIA A.

Women's Colleges and Domesticity, 1875-1918 / WEIN, ROBERTA

"After College, What?": New Graduates and the Family Claim / ANTLER, JOYCE

Opportunity and Fulfillment: Sex, Race, and Class in Health Care Education / HINE, DARLENE CLARK

Black Women and Higher Education: Spelman and Bennett Colleges Revisited / GUY-SHEFTALL, BEVERLY

It Might Have Been Euthenics: The Lake Placid Conferences and the Home Economics Movement / WEIGLEY, EMMA SEIFRIT

Copyright Information

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 26, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110978933

3110978938

OCLC:

979970757