Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965

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  • Author : Linda Eisenmann
  • Release Date : 2006-01-19
  • Publisher : JHU Press
  • Genre : Education
  • Pages : 300
  • ISBN 13 : 0801888891
  • File Size : 51,51 MB
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Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965 by Linda Eisenmann PDF Summary

Book Description: Outstanding Academic Title for 2007, Choice Magazine This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women.

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Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn