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Deans of Women and the Feminist MovementPracticing Political Citizenship

Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement: Practicing Political Citizenship [In the summer of 1944, Indiana University (IU) Dean of Women Kate Hevner Mueller and her husband, Associate Professor of Sociology John Mueller, took a much-needed vacation, both hoping to enjoy a break from IU business. Still, some work arrived by post from her Assistant Dean of Women Margaret Wilson, who managed the office while the dean was away. With war-time jobs offering women high salaries, Mueller found it difficult to maintain head residents in Indiana’s women’s residence halls. She lacked enough supervisors to round out the women’s staff, and Emily Taylor, recently finished with her master’s work, hoped to land one of these positions. Mueller, though, preferred a woman with collegiate dormitory experience, and Taylor had none. Perhaps more important, Mueller did not hold Ohio State’s dean of women, Ester Allen Gaw, in high esteem. Despite Associate Dean Grace S. M. Zorbaugh’s economic and vocational expertise, Mueller found Gaw’s thinking too conventional and hesitated to hire a woman from Gaw’s program over women trained at places such as Syracuse University or Columbia University’s Teachers College. Although deans of women as a group supported women’s liberal arts education and preparation for employment, each dean’s degree of feminist thinking and desire to change women’s roles varied according to many factors—the campus locale and political climate, the university administration, and the dean’s own opinions, to name a few.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-46555-2
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43 –58
DOI
10.1057/9781137481344_3
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Abstract

[In the summer of 1944, Indiana University (IU) Dean of Women Kate Hevner Mueller and her husband, Associate Professor of Sociology John Mueller, took a much-needed vacation, both hoping to enjoy a break from IU business. Still, some work arrived by post from her Assistant Dean of Women Margaret Wilson, who managed the office while the dean was away. With war-time jobs offering women high salaries, Mueller found it difficult to maintain head residents in Indiana’s women’s residence halls. She lacked enough supervisors to round out the women’s staff, and Emily Taylor, recently finished with her master’s work, hoped to land one of these positions. Mueller, though, preferred a woman with collegiate dormitory experience, and Taylor had none. Perhaps more important, Mueller did not hold Ohio State’s dean of women, Ester Allen Gaw, in high esteem. Despite Associate Dean Grace S. M. Zorbaugh’s economic and vocational expertise, Mueller found Gaw’s thinking too conventional and hesitated to hire a woman from Gaw’s program over women trained at places such as Syracuse University or Columbia University’s Teachers College. Although deans of women as a group supported women’s liberal arts education and preparation for employment, each dean’s degree of feminist thinking and desire to change women’s roles varied according to many factors—the campus locale and political climate, the university administration, and the dean’s own opinions, to name a few.]

Published: Oct 31, 2015

Keywords: Feminist Movement; Woman Student; Residence Hall; Student Government; Political Citizenship

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