In Adamless Eden
Title | In Adamless Eden PDF eBook |
Author | Patricia Ann Palmieri |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 1997-02-27 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780300063882 |
One of the most influential women's colleges in the country, Wellesley has educated many illustrious women, from Katharine Lee Bates--author of America the Beautiful--to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since its origins in the late nineteenth century, Wellesley has had an impact on American history and women's history. The college was unique in its commitment to an exclusively female faculty and much of its intellectual fervor can be traced back to them. This book is an engrossing narrative history of that first generation of Wellesley professors. Drawing on unpublished diaries, journals, family letters, and autobiographies, on newspapers and magazines, and on official Wellesley College records, Patricia Palmieri re-creates and reinterprets the lives and careers of many of the fifty-three senior women professors of the college. By exploring the family culture, education, and ideology of the "select few," she accounts for the rise of the first generation of academic women in post-Civil War America. Examining Wellesley's social and intellectual milieu, she radically revises standard accounts of the college as a citadel of enlightened domesticity between 1890 and 1920. She shows instead that its separatist women's community encouraged women students to renounce marriage and enter careers of public service, and she links Wellesley's educational climate to the social reform activism of the Progressive Era. In addition, she argues that these academic women formed a collective fellowship, which included many "Wellesley marriages." Ultimately society condemned Wellesley for its "spinster faculty," and by the 1930s the administration began to hire "happily married men." Nevertheless, the contemporary college owes much to the dedication and achievement of its pioneering women scholars.
The Adamless Eden
Title | The Adamless Eden PDF eBook |
Author | Sophia Malone |
Publisher | |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Artists' books |
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Hand-sewn booklet of print illustrations and quotations relating to the biblical Eve and woman's historical position in western society. Some of the images are derived from advertising and religious art.
An Adamless Eden
Title | An Adamless Eden PDF eBook |
Author | I. W. Norcross |
Publisher | |
Pages | 30 |
Release | 19?? |
Genre | Operas |
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LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION
Title | LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION PDF eBook |
Author | Janice M. Alberghene |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 495 |
Release | 2014-04-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1135593183 |
Raising key questions about race, class, sexuality, age, material culture, intellectual history, pedagogy, and gender, this book explores the myriad relationships between feminist thinking and Little Women, a novel that has touched many women's lives. A critical introduction traces 130 years of popular and critical response, and the collection presents 11 new essays, two new bibliographies, and reprints of six classic essays. The contributors examine the history of illustrating Little Women; Alcott's use of domestic architecture as codes of female self-expression; the tradition of utopian writing by women; relationship to works by British and African American writers; recent thinking about feminist pedagogy; the significance of the novel for women writers, and its implications from the vantage points of middle-aged scholar, parent, and resisting male reader.
Adamless Eden
Title | Adamless Eden PDF eBook |
Author | |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 1891 |
Genre | Operetta |
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The Detroiter
Title | The Detroiter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Detroit (Mich.) |
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The Bystander
Title | The Bystander PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1906 |
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