num_pages: 448
description: An examination of the founding and development of the Seven Sisters colleges--Mount Holyoke, Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, Bryn Mawr, and Barnard-- Alma Mater focuses on the ideas behind their establishment and the colleges' architectural, academic, and social histories, as well as those of their twentieth-century successors--Sarah Lawrence, Bennington, and Scripps.
language: English
title: Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s ,2nd Edition
titlecomplete: Alma Mater: Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth Century Beginnings to the 1930s ,2nd Edition
genres: Gender, History, American History, Academic, Education, Womens, Nonfiction, Feminism
ratings_count: 80
publisher: University of Massachusetts Press