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Challenged by Coeducation details the responses of women's colleges to the most recent wave of Women's colleges originated in the mid-nineteenth century as a response to women's exclusion from higher education. Women's academic successes and their persistent struggles to enter men's colleges resulted in coeducation rapidly becoming the norm, however. Still, many prestigious institutions remained single-sex, notably most of the Ivy League and all of the Seven Sisters colleges. In the mid-twentieth century colleges' concerns about finances and enrollments, as well as ideological pressures to integrate formerly separate social groups, led men's colleges, and some women's colleges, to become coe...
The essays in Liberating Sanctuary: 100 Years of Women's Education at the College of St. Catherine, edited by Jane Lamm Carroll, Joanne Cavallaro, and Sharon Doherty examine key figures, decisions, and ideas over the College's 100 year history, linking the story through a cent...
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Best known today for her nature writing and southwestern cultural studies, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) has been increasingly recognized for her outspoken essays on feminist themes. This volume collects her nonfiction journalism, with each essay prefaced by brief introductory remarks by the editor. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Gender and Science Reader brings together key articles in a comprehensive investigations of the nature and practice of science.