Changing the Subject
Subtitle: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780231126441
Subjects: Higher & further education; History of specific subjects; Women's studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Social Science; Sociology; New York; Gender Studies; United States - General; Women's Studies - History; History / United States / General; General; Women's Studies - General; 20th century; Admission; Coeducation; Columbia University; Feminism and higher education; History; New York (State); Women in higher education
First sentence: ON OCTOBER 4, 1873, the writer and suffragist Lillie Devereux Blake escorted her two teenage daughters and a friend to Columbia College, then located at Forty-ninth Street and Madison Avenue.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.