The Douglass century : transformation of the women's college at Rutgers University

The Douglass century : transformation of the women's college at Rutgers University / Kayo Denda, Mary Hawkesworth, Fernanda Perrone.

"Rutgers University's Douglass Residential College is the only college for women that is nested within a major research university in the United States. Although the number of women's colleges has plummeted from a high of 268 in 1960 to 38 in 2016, Douglass is flourishing as it approa...

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Main Author: Denda, Kayo (Author)
Other Authors: Hawkesworth, M. E., 1952- (Editor), Perrone, Fernanda (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Douglass College > History.
Douglass College > History > Pictorial works.
Douglass College
Women > Education (Higher) > New Jersey > New Brunswick > History.
Women > Education (Higher) > New Jersey > New Brunswick > History > Pictorial works.
EDUCATION > Higher.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
EDUCATION > History.
Women > Education (Higher)
New Jersey > New Brunswick
Electronic books.
History
Pictorial works
Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword / Christ, Carol T.
  • Deans of the College
  • 1. INVENTING DOUGLASS: The Challenge of Women's Higher Education
  • 2. NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN: Establishing a Tradition, 1918-1929
  • 3. CHALLENGES OF THE 1930s
  • 4. WORLD WAR II AND ITS AFTERMATH: New Jersey College For Women, 1940-1950
  • 5. FROM NEW JERSEY COLLEGE FOR WOMEN TO DOUGLASS COLLEGE
  • 6. PRESERVING DOUGLASS'S SPECIAL MISSION
  • 7. DOUGLASS IN TWO TURBULENT DECADES: Student Activism and Institutional Transformation
  • 8. CREATING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT, BY, AND FOR WOMEN
  • 9. REINVENTING DOUGLASS: From University Reorganization to the Transformation of Undergraduate Education
  • 10. DIVERSIFYING DOUGLASS
  • 11. DOUGLASS RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE: Revitalizing Women's Education in the Twenty-First Century
  • 12. THE DOUGLASS DIFFERENCE
  • Afterword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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