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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786902003321

Autore

Renn Kristen A.

Titolo

Women's colleges and universities in global contexts / / Kristen A. Renn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4214-1478-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Disciplina

378.0082

Soggetti

Women's colleges

Women - Education

Women in higher education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Context of Women's Higher Education -- 2 Exploring the World of Contemporary Women's Colleges and Universities -- 3 Providing Women Access to Higher Education -- 4 Campus Climate: Being Ordinary Is Not an Option -- 5 Developing Student Leaders: Women Who Will Change the World -- 6 Gender Empowerment for Campus and Community -- 7 Women's Colleges and Universities as Symbols, Contradictions, and Paradoxes -- 8 Raising Questions in the Present and about the Future -- Appendix. Multisite Case Study Research Design.