Women's Higher Education in the United States New Historical Perspectives

This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early nineteenth century through the 1970s, these essays address the meaning diverse groups of women have made of their education or their exclusion from education, and delve deeply into how those experiences were shaped by concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, national origin. Nash demonstrates how an examination of the history of women's education can transform our understanding of educational institutions and processes more generally.

About the author

Margaret  A. Nash is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside, USA,  and the author of Higher Education for Women in the United States, 1780-1840, which won a Critics Choice award from the American Educational Studies Association. She has appeared on CNN for Women's History Month, and has published in History of Education Quarterly and other journals.

Product details

• Assisted by: Margaret A. Nash (Editor), Margaret A Nash (Editor), Margare A Nash (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.01.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education
• EAN: 9781349935345
• ISBN: 978-1-349-93534-5
• Pages: 313
• Illustrations: XVII, 313 p. 6 illus.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.5 x 20.9 x 1.9 cm
• Weight (packing): 440 g
• Series: Historical Studies in Educatio; Historical Studies in Education; Historical Studies in Educatio