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 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