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Changing the Subject
Rosalind Rosenberg
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Description for Changing the Subject
Presents the story 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. This book addresses the rise of modern feminism which furthered the cause of political reform. Num Pages: 400 pages, 51 black and white. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JH; HBT; JFSJ1; JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 817.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231126441
SKU
V9780231126441
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About Rosalind Rosenberg
Rosalind Rosenberg is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism and Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century.
Reviews for Changing the Subject
Carefully constructed and thoroughly researched...Essential reading for women's-studies courses. Kirkus Reviews Of interest to students and scholars in history, education, and women's studies, this book is recommended for academic libraries.
Linda V. Carlisle Library Journal [A] tour de force from Rosenberg... Recommended. Choice Changing the Subject reads like an epic novel, taking the reader back in time to foremothers ... Read more
Linda V. Carlisle Library Journal [A] tour de force from Rosenberg... Recommended. Choice Changing the Subject reads like an epic novel, taking the reader back in time to foremothers ... Read more