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Rury, John L. – 1991
This study examines the development of women's secondary education in U.S. cities in the years between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Chapter 1 looks at the period between 1870 and 1900 when, through the coeducational high school, women came to share in the academic culture traditionally reserved for males. Chapter 2 looks at who went to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Economic Factors, Educational Discrimination, Educational History