03600nam 2200649 450 991045595910332120200520144314.01-282-02288-197866120228831-4426-7980-810.3138/9781442679801(CKB)2420000000004352(EBL)4671948(SSID)ssj0000309299(PQKBManifestationID)11234423(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000309299(PQKBWorkID)10286217(PQKB)10449992(CaBNvSL)thg00600337 (MiAaPQ)EBC3254777(MiAaPQ)EBC4671948(DE-B1597)464859(OCoLC)979836709(DE-B1597)9781442679801(Au-PeEL)EBL4671948(CaPaEBR)ebr11257636(OCoLC)815765948(EXLCZ)99242000000000435220160922h20022002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSetting the agenda Jean Royce and the shaping of Queen's University /Roberta HamiltonToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2002.©20021 online resource (381 p.)Studies in Gender and HistoryDescription based upon print version of record.0-8020-3671-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. 'The Girls Got All the Charisma' -- 2. Did She Run the Place? -- 3. Keeping a 'Watching Brief' -- 4. The Prime of Miss Jean Royce -- 5. More Than a Registrar -- 6. Ranging the Universe -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index -- BackmatterAs Registrar of Queen's University, Jean Royce shaped the university's development, and personified the university for generations of students. Appointed in 1933 by men who sought to exclude women from positions of authority, Jean Royce navigated the precarious gendered environment of institutional life for thirty-five years. As gate-keeper and talent scout, she encouraged all who qualified, revealing herself out of sympathy with those who would preserve Queen's as Protestant men's club or English-Canadian enclave. Attentive to detail and internationalist in vision, she became the most powerful woman ever to work at Queens. Her forced retirement at 64 devastated her, but following her election by alumni to the Board of Trustees she played a key role in expanding educational opportunities for women.Spanning the first eight decades of the twentieth century, Jean Royce's life provides a lens for looking at working-class family life before the Great Depression, social mobility through education, feminism's continuing presence in the twentieth century, and the constraints and possibilities for single women in work, relationships, cultural life, and international travel. Centrally, her life provides a close look at the development and politics of a major Canadian university.Studies in gender and history.College registrarsCanadaBiographyElectronic books.College registrars378.713/72/092Hamilton Roberta919651MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455959103321Setting the agenda2490079UNINA