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Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesA 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

Women’s Higher Education in the United States: A Coeducational Pathway to Political & Economic... [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 philosophy that prepared college women for economic security and political participation – particularly suffrage. Borrowing from women’s colleges, deans established student government in women’s residences in order to acculturate women to campus norms and to foster their leadership skills. Deans of women advised female student government leaders on their campuses and created a little-known national organization for women’s student governance. The Intercollegiate Association of Women Students (IAWS) originated in 1913, and eventually encompassed 300 campuses and involved 200,000 female student members by the mid twentieth century. Deans closely advised IAWS, and its campus chapters, outpacing the creation and implementation of student government with men in coeducational institutions.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Women’s Higher Education in the United StatesA 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

Part of the Historical Studies in Education Book Series
Editors: Nash, Margaret A.
Sartorius, Kelly C.
Women’s Higher Education in the United States — Jul 29, 2017
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
ISBN
978-1-137-59083-1
Pages
161 –183
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8_8
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[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 philosophy that prepared college women for economic security and political participation – particularly suffrage. Borrowing from women’s colleges, deans established student government in women’s residences in order to acculturate women to campus norms and to foster their leadership skills. Deans of women advised female student government leaders on their campuses and created a little-known national organization for women’s student governance. The Intercollegiate Association of Women Students (IAWS) originated in 1913, and eventually encompassed 300 campuses and involved 200,000 female student members by the mid twentieth century. Deans closely advised IAWS, and its campus chapters, outpacing the creation and implementation of student government with men in coeducational institutions.]

Published: Jul 29, 2017

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