The Educational Work of Women’s Organizations, 1890–1960

1. Introduction: Women, Volunteerism, and Education
Christine Woyshner, Anne Meis Knupfer

Part I. Advancing Higher Education and Professional Work For Women

2. “Standing Up For High Standards”
Joan Marie Johnson

3. “Forwarding Our Great Purpose of Research in Education”
Laurie Moses Hines

4. Cold War Women
Laura Micheletti Puaca

Part II. Expanding Women’s Influence in Politics and Social Reform Institutions

5. The National College Equal Suffrage League
Jana Nidiffer

6. Latter-Day Knights
Emily Mieras

7. “The Worker Must Have Bread, But She Must Have Roses, Too”
Liz Rohan

Part III. “Uplifting the Race”

8. The Student YWCA
Sharlene Voogd Cochrane

9. “I Think I’d Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro”
Marybeth Gasman

10. Linking Friendship and Service
Kijua Sanders-McMurtry, Nia Woods Haydel

Part IV. Schooling Children

11. “Politics Are Quite Perplexing”
Barbara Beatty

12. “We Are from the City, and We Are Here to Educate You”
Andra Knecht

13. The Suburban PTA and the Good Life, 1920–60
Claudia J. Keenan

Keywords: Education, Educational Policy and Politics, History of Education, US History, Modern History, Gender Studies, Organic Chemistry