ISBN:
0801882613
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 280 S.
,
24 cm
DDC:
378.1/9822/097309045
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1945-1965
;
Femmes - Enseignement supérieur - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
;
Frau
;
Geschichte
;
Women Education (Higher) 20th century
;
History
;
Frau
;
Hochschulbildung
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Frau
;
Hochschulbildung
;
Geschichte 1945-1965
Abstract:
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 by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-271) and index
