Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda Perrone

The Douglass Century: Transformation of the Women's College at Rutgers University

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although the number of women's colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass Residential College is flourishing as it approaches its centennial in 2018. To explore its rich history, Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda H. Perrone examine the strategic transformation of Douglass over the past century in relation to continuing debates about women's higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 16 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 268mm x 195mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1025g
• ISBN-13: 9780813585413
• ISBN-10: 0813585414
• Artikelnr.: 48380295

Autorenporträt

KAYO DENDA is the head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and the women’s studies librarian at the Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, New Jersey. In 2016, she won the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Women and Gender Studies Section (WGSS) Career Achievement Award. MARY HAWKESWORTH is distinguished professor of political science and women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University in New Brunswick. She is the editor of the leading feminist journal Signs and the author of many books, including Embodied Power: Demystifying Disembodied Politics. FERNANDA H. PERRONE is an archivist, head of the of the Exhibitions Program and curator of the William Elliot Griffis Collection in the Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick.  

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Carol T. Christ, DC ’66 . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Deans of the College, 1918–2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
A ssociate Alumnae of Douglass College:
Presidents and Executive Directors . . . . . . . . . . xi
1 Inventing Douglass: The Challenge
of Women’s Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
2 New Jersey College for Women:
Establishing a Tradition, 1918–1933 . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
3 Challenges of the 1930s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
4 World War II and Its Aftermath:
New Jersey College For Women,
1940–1950 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . .73
5 From New Jersey College for
Women to Douglass College . . . . . . . . . . . 93
6 Preserving Douglass’s
Special Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 117
7 Douglass in Two Turbulent
Decades: Student Activism
and Institutional Transformation . . . . . . . . . . . . .143
8 Creating Knowledge about,
by, and for Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
9 R einventing Douglass:
From University Reorganization
to the Transformation of
Undergraduate Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199
10 Diversifying Douglass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
11 Douglass Residential College:
Revitalizing Women’s Education
in the Twenty-First Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
12 The Douglass Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.271
Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . 275
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . 317
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . 327