Changing the subject [[electronic resource] ] : how the women of Columbia shaped the way we think about sex and politics / / Rosalind Rosenberg

• Autore: Rosenberg Rosalind <1946->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Columbia University Press, c2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (412 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.747/1
• Soggetto topico: Feminism and higher education - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Women in higher education - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century; Coeducation - New York (State) - New York - History - 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-373) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. The Battle over Coeducation -- Two. Establishing Beachheads -- Three. City of Women -- Four. Patterns of Culture -- Five. Womanpower -- Six. Sexual Politics -- Seven. The Battle over Coeducation Renewed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers-emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post-Civil War era-pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870's. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard College was founded, creating a refuge for women scholars at Columbia, as well as an academic beachhead "from which women would make incursions into the larger university." By 1950, Columbia was granting more advanced degrees to women and hiring more female faculty than any other university in the country. In Changing the Subject, Rosalind Rosenberg shows how this century-long struggle transcended its local origins and contributed to the rise of modern feminism, furthered the cause of political reform, and enlivened the intellectual life of America's most cosmopolitan city. Surmounting a series of social and institutional obstacles to gain access to Columbia University, women played a key role in its evolution from a small, Protestant, male-dominated school into a renowned research university. At the same time, their struggles challenged prevailing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity; questioned accepted views about ethnicity, race, and rights; and thereby laid the foundation for what we now know as gender. From Lillie Devereux Blake, Annie Nathan Meyer, and Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve in the first generation, through Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston in the second, to Kate Millett, Gerda Lerner, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the third, the women of Columbia shook the world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Changing the subject
• ISBN: 0-231-50114-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452036203321
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