ABSTRACT

This study, first published in 1993, traces the path of women toward intellectual emancipation from eighteenth-century precedents, through the hard-won access to college education in the nineteenth-century, to the triumphs of the early 1900s. The author compares women's experiences in both the US and England, and will be of interest to students of history, education and gender studies.

chapter 1|29 pages

The Eighteenth-Century Legacy

chapter 2|28 pages

Early Steps To Higher Education

chapter 3|22 pages

A College Like a Man's

chapter 4|17 pages

Reaction To An Education Like a Man's

chapter 5|21 pages

The Promise of Equal Education In America

chapter 6|16 pages

The Hope of Equal Recognition In England

chapter 7|29 pages

Higher Education In The South

chapter 9|29 pages

Continuing Hope and Struggle