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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780854903321

Autore

Eisenmann Linda <1952->

Titolo

Higher education for women in postwar America, 1945-1965 [[electronic resource] /] / Linda Eisenmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, MD, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-8018-8889-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Disciplina

378.1/9822/097309045

Soggetti

Women - Education (Higher) - United States - History - 20th century

Education, Higher - United States - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Postwar gender expectations and realities -- Educators consider the postwar college woman -- Research: the American Council on Education's Commission on the Education of Women -- Practice: advocacy in women's professional organizations -- Policy: the President's Commission on the Status of Women -- Women's continuing education as an institutional response -- The contributions and limitations of women's continuing education.