Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965

Name: Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
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ISBN: 9780801887451

ISBN-10: 0801887453

ISBN-13: 9780801887451

Edition: 2006

Authors: Linda Eisenmann

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This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.946