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ERIC Number: ED340287
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1991
Pages: 352
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: ISBN-0-87451-570-X
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The Search For Equity. Women at Brown University, 1891-1991.
Kaufman, Polly Welts, Ed.
This collection of essays describes women's ongoing search for equity at Brown University, Rhode Island, since their first entrance there in 1891. After a preface by Joan W. Scott and an introduction by Polly Welts Kaufman, the volume contains the following 10 essays: "The Woman's Club Movement Creates and Defines the Women's College" by Karen J. Blair; "'Freedom to be Womanly': The Separate Culture of the Woman's College" by Linda Eisenmann; "From Coordination to Coeducation: Pembrokers' Struggle for Social Equality" by Louise M. Newman; "From Equity to Equality: Women's Athletics at Brown" by Cindy Himes; "The Costs of Partial Support: One Hundred Years of Brown Graduate Women" by Linda Eisenmann; "'A Place for A Good Woman': The Development of Women Faculty At Brown" by Lyde Cullen Sizer; "Finding a Voice: Women on the Brown Corporation" by Jean E. Howard; "The Challenge of Diversity: Undergraduate Women at Brown in the 1980s" by Shelley Mains and Sandy Martin with Martha Gardner; "A Network of Women: Alumnae Volunteerism in Rhode Island" by Karen M. Lamoree; and "A Wider World: Careers of Brown Alumnae" by Charlotte Lowney Tomas. Included are notes on the contributors and an index. All of the essays include extensive references and notes. (JB)
University Press of New England, 17 1/2 Lebanon Street, Hanover, NH 03755 ($19.95; hardcover $34.95).
Publication Type: Books; Collected Works - General; Historical Materials
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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