Overview
- Brings together new research on the history of women’s education in the United States
- Incorporates research on a wide range of places where women were educated including female seminaries, Catholic colleges, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
- Includes perspectives of students and faculty to highlight a diverse range of views on the issue
Part of the book series: Historical Studies in Education (HSE)
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About this book
This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s, these essays address the meaning diverse groups of women have made of their education or their exclusion from education, and delve deeply into how those experiences were shaped by concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin. Nash demonstrates how an examination of the history of women’s education can transform our understanding of educational institutions and processes more generally.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Margaret A. Nash is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside, USA, and the author of Higher Education for Women in the United States, 1780-1840, which won a Critics Choice award from the American Educational Studies Association. She has appeared on CNN for Women’s History Month, and has published in History of Education Quarterly and other journals.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Higher Education in the United States
Book Subtitle: New Historical Perspectives
Editors: Margaret A. Nash
Series Title: Historical Studies in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59084-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59083-1Published: 25 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-93534-5Published: 11 August 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59084-8Published: 24 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2945-7173
Series E-ISSN: 2945-7181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 313
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Higher Education, History of Education, Gender and Education