Reviews
Groundbreaking synthesis... Highly recommended.
This is an interesting book and Eisenmann skillfully demonstrates the connections between governmental policy, social ideologies, and higher education.
Historians of education and gender will find the book useful.
Eisenmann gives the postwar activists the attention they merit and insightfully conveys their value in women's educational history.
For social, labor, and women's historians interested in the middle twentieth century, the book is a critically important one.
Eisenmann also makes an important contribution to our understanding of postwar American society.
No other history of this era has explored so many facets of American gender ideology, including economic, cultural, and psychological ideologies. Eisenmann offers well-supported and original arguments that will make this book a 'must read' not only for historians of higher education and American women but also for women who lived through the experiences described in the book.
Through the use of primary sources of early women's organizations, commissions, and continuing education institutions, Eisenmann explains the actions of a group of women in higher education, while noting the racial and class differences all along the way. The book will expand our understanding of this era.
Book Details
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Ideologies
1. Postwar Gender Expectations and Realities
2. Educators Consider the Postwar College Woman
Part II: Explorations
3. Research: The American Council on
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Ideologies
1. Postwar Gender Expectations and Realities
2. Educators Consider the Postwar College Woman
Part II: Explorations
3. Research: The American Council on Education's Commission on the Education of Women
4. Practice: Advocacy in Women's Professional Organizations
5. Policy: The President's Commission on the Status of Women
Part III: Responses
6. Women's Continuing Education as an Institutional Response
7. The Contributions and Limitations of Women's Continuing Education
Conclusion
Notes
Index