Yards and Gates : Gender in Harvard and Radcliffe History

by Edited by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• ISBN13: 9781403960986
• ISBN10: 1403960984
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-04-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In 1997 Harvard College dedicated a gate into the Old Yard to celebrate the 25th anniversary of housing female students in the dorms. Intended as a symbol of opening, it was also a reminder of separation. Women have always been an important part of Harvard, but they have often functioned "outside the gate." This compelling collection explores the fences, real and symbolic, that overshadow women from institutions--and reveals the importance of looking at history with gender in mind. From the early days of Radcliffe, one of the Seven Sisters, to the interaction of teachers and students, to the Harvard community of working people, non-whites, and women, these essays explore aspirations as well as marginality. They celebrate the resilience of Radcliffe, which has transformed its image, in one generation, from a stepping stone to eventual integration with "the men" to a significant institution focused on women--an end desirable in itself. These are stories about once-locked gates, and those who opened them.

Author Biography

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

Before Radcliffe, 1760-1860

Creating a Fellowship of Educated Men: Forming Gentlemen at Pre-Revolutionary Harvard Conrad

Harvard College Once-Removed: The 'Favorable Situation' of Hannah Winthrop and Mercy Otis Warren

The Poet and the Petitioner: Two Black Women in Harvard's Early History

Snapshots from the Archives

To the University of Cambridge in New England

Anna Quincy Describes the "Cambridge Worthies", 1833

John Landon Sibley on Taming Undergraduate Passions, 1860-1868

"Feminine" Clothing at Harvard in the 1830s

Together but Separate, 1870-1930

Taking up the Challenge: The Origins of Radcliffe

The Great Debate

Harvard Men: From Dudes to Rough Riders

Radcliffe Women at Play

Clothes Make the Man: Cross-Dressing on the Radcliffe Stage

Fair Harvard? Labor, Law, and Gender in the Harvard Scrubwoman Case 1921-31

Negotiating Work and Family: Aspirations of Early Radcliffe Graduates

Snapshots: Invisible Faculty at Harvard

Coeducation by Degrees, 1943-2001

The Changing "Harvard Student": Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

Feminism and Femininity in Almost Equal Balance

Mid-Century Memories

Memories of Life at Radcliffe

Nostalgia and Promise

10,000 Men of Harvard

Women with High Influence, Low Visibility

The Lost Generation

Integrating Women at Oxford and Harvard Universities, 1964-1977

From Sympathizers to Organizers

Thinking About Change

Integrating Lamont (Women in Lamont, May 1999 pamphlet)

Remembering Radcliffe, 1968-1972

Founding the Committee for Women's Studies

A Radcliffe Girl at Harvard, or Why Members of the Class of '58 Staged a Revolution in 1993

Mingling Promiscuously

Ups and Downs with Harvard

Before Radcliffe, 1760-1860

Creating a Fellowship of Educated Men: Forming Gentlemen at Pre-Revolutionary Harvard Conrad

Harvard College Once-Removed: The 'Favorable Situation' of Hannah Winthrop and Mercy Otis Warren

The Poet and the Petitioner: Two Black Women in Harvard's Early History

Snapshots from the Archives

To the University of Cambridge in New England

Anna Quincy Describes the "Cambridge Worthies", 1833

John Landon Sibley on Taming Undergraduate Passions, 1860-1868

"Feminine" Clothing at Harvard in the 1830s

Together but Separate, 1870-1930

Taking up the Challenge: The Origins of Radcliffe

The Great Debate: President Eliot and M. Carey Thomas

Harvard Men: From Dudes to Rough Riders

Radcliffe Women at Play

Clothes Make the Man: Cross-Dressing on the Radcliffe Stage

Fair Harvard? Labor, Law, and Gender in the Harvard Scrubwoman Case 1921-31

Negotiating Work and Family: Aspirations of Early Radcliffe Graduates

Snapshots: Invisible Faculty at Harvard

Coeducation by Degrees, 1943-2001

The Changing "Harvard Student": Ethnicity, Race, and Gender

Feminism and Femininity in Almost Equal Balance

Mid-Century Memories

Memories of Life at Radcliffe

Nostalgia and Promise

10,000 Men of Harvard

Women with High Influence, Low Visibility

The Lost Generation

Integrating

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