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Women’s Higher Education in the United States

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series

Editors: Nash, Margaret A.

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8

ISBN: 978-1-137-59083-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Jul 29, 2017

1 - 10 of 14 Chapters

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Chapter 1Thoughts on the History of Women’s Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction

Nash, Margaret A.

Pages: 1 –21

[This chapter applies a theoretical lens drawn from poststructuralism to the history of women’s education. Foucault’s theory of power and the theory of moral orthopedics, based on Foucault, are proposed as helpful lenses. The chapter also discusses the possibilities and limitations of developing...
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Chapter 2“She Pursued Her Life-Work”: The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800–1860

McMahon, Lucia

Pages: 23 –43

[In 1855, Catharine Badger published a tribute to Martha Whiting, principal of the Charlestown Female Seminary in Massachusetts. Badger believed that it was “the path of duty” to tell Whiting’s life story, so that her students and friends might “receive one more lesson as from her.” This chapter...
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Chapter 3“Cruel and Wicked Prejudice:” Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North

Baumgartner, Kabria

Pages: 45 –67

[In antebellum America, hundreds of seminaries welcomed young, middle-class and elite white women. Only a handful of these seminaries opened their doors to African American women. While historians have examined the social forces that shaped women’s education, the dimensions of racial exclusion in...
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Chapter 4The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839–1850)

Kolodny, Kelly Ann

Pages: 69 –91

[Official reading exercises connected with a teacher-directed curriculum centered on grammar, natural philosophy, moral philosophy, geography, arithmetic and scriptures. This endorsed curriculum was reviewed by examiners who visited the first state normal schools. Due to controversy that...
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Chapter 5Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s–1990s

Ling, Huping

Pages: 93 –116

[In 1881, the first recorded Chinese female students arrived in the United States. Since then, the trickle of Chinese female students into the United States has continued. Although their increasing visibility over the years has attracted some scholars’ attention, a number of fundamental issues...
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Chapter 6The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977

Perkins, Linda M.

Pages: 117 –137

[This chapter discusses the early Black women faculty at Howard University in Washington, D.C. over a fifty-year period, when Mordecai W. Johnson became the first Black president in 1926, until the late 1970s when the early Black female faculty began to retire. This study highlights the profound...
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Chapter 7Research at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940

Dzuback, Mary Ann

Pages: 139 –159

[This chapter explores the introduction and integration of research into women’s colleges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Research culture developed more quickly in such colleges as Vassar, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Barnard, Wellesley, and Bryn Mawr, all of which were...
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Chapter 8A 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

Sartorius, Kelly C.

Pages: 161 –183

[This chapter considers how deans of women developed student government as a feminist practice in order to teach coeducational college women political and economic citizenship. Supervising women students at the turn of the twentieth century, deans of women crafted a feminist coeducational...
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Chapter 9From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman’s Educational Journey

Talerico-Brown, Jennifer

Pages: 185 –210

[In a speech about Indian customs before the student body at the University of Hawaii in the fall of 1937, Cleo Caudell, Choctaw, stated, “Indians nowadays dress and act much the same as other folks do.” Caudell was in Hawaii completing a year of post-graduate work funded by a scholarship from...
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Chapter 10The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States

Tolley, Kim

Pages: 211 –232

[This chapter explores the impact of the declining number of teaching sisters on Catholic schools and the steps taken by one group of sisters to preserve the identity and legacy of their institutions. During the nineteenth century, Catholic female teaching orders provided some of the most...

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