Reviews the European response to U.S. women's colleges. Contends that most international visitors believed that the United States was the world leader in women's rights in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Concludes that women's colleges' influence as models was limited severly by generally negative perceptions of all U. S. colleges. (CFR)

Contends that the history of women's education in the United States is frequently told as a story of triumph over resistance and discouragement. Asserts that, in general, African American men viewed women with a greater sense of equality than was the norm within white society. (CFR)

Compares the experience of 3 women's training colleges in Great Britain during the first half of the 20th century. Concludes that the training college culture, with its combination of individual enrichment and collective stagnation, is important to the history feminism. (CFR)