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1 online resource (xv, 402 pages) |
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Carleton library series ; 257
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Carleton library series ; 257.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Bessie Scott, nearing the end of her first year at university in the spring of 1890, recorded in her diary: "Wore my gown for first time! It didn't seem at all strange to do so." Often deemed a cumbersome tradition by men, the cap and gown were dearly prized by women as an outward sign of their hard-won admission to the rank of undergraduates. For the first generations of university women, higher education was an exhilarating and transformative experience, but these opportunities would narrow in the decades that followed. In University Women Sara MacDonald explores the processes of integration and separation that marked women's contested entrance into higher education. Examining the period between 1870 and 1930, this book is the first to provide a comparative study of women at universities across Canada. MacDonald concludes that women's higher education cannot be seen as a progressive narrative, a triumphant story of trailblazers and firsts, of doors being thrown open and staying open. The early promise of equal education was not fulfilled in the longer term, as a backlash against the growing presence of women on campuses resulted in separate academic programs, closer moral regulation, and barriers that restricted their admission into the burgeoning fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The modernization of higher education ultimately marginalized women students, researchers, and faculty within the diversified universities of the twentieth century. University Women uncovers the systemic inequalities based on gender, race, and class that have shaped Canadian higher education. It is indispensable reading for those concerned with the underrepresentation of girls and women in STEM and current initiatives to address issues of access and equity within our academic institutions."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Educated women: Schooling the daughters of the new dominion -- 2. Sex and race in education: The campaign for coeducation -- 3. Separate and different: Women's colleges and self-support -- 4. Becoming undergraduates: Rights and responsibilities of college life -- 5. An insurrection of women: Deans, suffrage, and self-government -- 6. Furies and flappers: Toward academic separation -- Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women college students -- Canada -- History.
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Women in higher education -- Canada -- History.
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College students -- Canada -- History.
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Education, Higher -- Canada -- History.
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EDUCATION / Higher |
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College students. |
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Education, Higher. |
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Women college students. |
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Women in higher education. |
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Canada. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: MacDonald, Sara Z. University women. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021 0228008638 9780228008637 (OCoLC)1241244396 |
| ISBN |
9780228009917 EPUB |
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022800991X EPUB |
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9780228009900 electronic book |
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0228009901 electronic book |
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