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9780231126441

Changing the Subject

by Rosenberg, Rosalind
  • ISBN13:

    9780231126441

  • ISBN10:

    0231126441

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-18
  • Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

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Summary

This remarkable story begins in the years following the Civil War, when reformers -- emboldened by the egalitarian rhetoric of the post--Civil War era -- pressed New York City's oldest institution of higher learning to admit women in the 1870s. Their effort failed, but within twenty years Barnard College was founded, creating a refuge for women scholars at Columbia, as well as an academic beachhead "from which women would make incursions into the larger university." By 1950, Columbia was granting more advanced degrees to women and hiring more female faculty than any other university in the country.In Changing the Subject,Rosalind Rosenberg shows how this century-long struggle transcended its local origins and contributed to the rise of modern feminism, furthered the cause of political reform, and enlivened the intellectual life of America's most cosmopolitan city. Surmounting a series of social and institutional obstacles to gain access to Columbia University, women played a key role in its evolution from a small, Protestant, male-dominated school into a renowned research university. At the same time, their struggles challenged prevailing ideas about masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity; questioned accepted views about ethnicity, race, and rights; and thereby laid the foundation for what we now know as gender. From Lillie Devereux Blake, Annie Nathan Meyer, and Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve in the first generation, through Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Zora Neale Hurston in the second, to Kate Millett, Gerda Lerner, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the third, the women of Columbia shook the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1(7)
ONE The Battle over Coeducation 8(40)
TWO Establishing Beachheads 48(45)
THREE City of Women 93(37)
FOUR Patterns of Culture 130(49)
FIVE Womanpower 179(38)
SIX Sexual Politics 217(51)
SEVEN The Battle over Coeducation Renewed 268(43)
Conclusion 311(6)
Notes 317(46)
Bibliography 363(12)
Index 375

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