Contradictions in Women's Education: Traditionalism, Careerism, and Community at a Single-Sex College

This volume provides a fresh lens for viewing single-sex colleges by examining a different setting--a non-elite women's college in the Midwest. This is the story of how a group of undergraduate women experienced and coped with the contradictions of gender traditionalism, careerism, and community that formed the context in which they received their college education.

Summary

This volume provides a fresh lens for viewing single-sex colleges by examining a non-elite women's college in the Midwest. This is the story of how a group of undergraduate women experienced and coped with the contradictions of gender traditionalism, careerism and community.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara J. Bank, Harriet M. Yelon
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2003
• EAN: 9780807743638
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-4363-8
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 297 g
• Series: Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education Series; Sociology of Education S.; Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system