ABSTRACT

This edited collection illustrates the way in which women’s experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts.
 
The contributors integrally advance knowledge about the university in history by exploring the intersections of the lived experiences of women students and professors, practices of co-education, and intellectual and academic cultures. They also raise important questions about the complementary and multidirectional flow and exchange of academic knowledge and information among gender groups across programmes, disciplines, and universities.
 
Historical inquiry and interpretation serve as efficacious ways with which to understand contemporary events and discourses in higher education, and more broadly in community and society. This book will provide important historical contexts for current debates about the numerical dominance and significance of women in higher education, and the tensions embedded in the gendering of specific academic programs and disciplines, and university policies, missions, and mandates.

chapter |33 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|24 pages

Imperial Ideals

Women in Scotland's Universities and the British Empire

chapter 4|22 pages

Becoming Undergraduates

Women and University Culture in Nineteenth-Century Canada

chapter 5|26 pages

Intellectual Women, Social Science, and Political Power

Municipal Feminism and Reform at the London School of Economics, 1895 to 1960

chapter 6|19 pages

Journeys Toward a Gentleman's Education

International Fellowships and Bryn Mawr College Students, 1900–1930

chapter 8|28 pages

“Feverish Frolics of the Frivolous Frosh”

Women's Cultures of Initiation in Western Canadian Universities, 1915–1935

chapter 9|18 pages

From Happy Homes to Contaminating Cloisters

Women's University Communities in Interwar Britain

chapter 10|23 pages

Korerotia Mo Nga Paake

Māori Women Educators Speak

chapter 11|24 pages

“Honorary Men” and Incidental Students

Women in Post-World War II American Higher Education, 1945–1970