Women’s Higher Education in the United States

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

Chapter 2 “She Pursued Her Life-Work”: The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800–1860

Chapter 3 “Cruel and Wicked Prejudice:” Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North

Chapter 4 The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839–1850)

Chapter 5 Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s–1990s

Chapter 6 The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977

Chapter 7 Research at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940

Chapter 8 A 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

Chapter 9 From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman’s Educational Journey

Chapter 10 The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States

Chapter 11 Before Chicana Civil Rights: Three Generations of Mexican American Women in Higher Education in the Southwest, 1920–1965

Chapter 12 Building the New Scholarship of Women’s Higher Educational History, 1965–1985

Chapter 13 “The Rest is All Drag”: Trans-gressive Women in Higher Education History

Chapter 14 Epilogue