Women’s Higher Education in the United States

1. Thoughts on the History of Women’s Education, Theories of Power, and This Volume: An Introduction
Margaret A. Nash

2. “She Pursued Her Life-Work”: The Life Lessons of American Women Educators, 1800–1860
Lucia McMahon

3. “Cruel and Wicked Prejudice:” Racial Exclusion and the Female Seminary Movement in the Antebellum North
Kabria Baumgartner

4. The Endorsed and Spontaneous Reading and Writing Exercises of Students in Early State Normal Schools in Massachusetts (1839–1850)
Kelly Ann Kolodny

5. Chinese Female Students in the United States, 1880s–1990s
Huping Ling

6. The Black Female Professoriate at Howard University: 1926–1977
Linda M. Perkins

7. Research at Women’s Colleges, 1890–1940
Mary Ann Dzuback

8. A Coeducational Pathway to Political & Economic Citizenship: Women’s Student Government and a Philosophy and Practice of Women’s U.S. Higher Coeducation Between 1890 and 1945
Kelly C. Sartorius

9. From Haskell to Hawaii: One American Indian Woman’s Educational Journey
Jennifer Talerico-Brown

10. The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in the West: Women Religious and Education in the United States
Kim Tolley

11. Before Chicana Civil Rights: Three Generations of Mexican American Women in Higher Education in the Southwest, 1920–1965
Victoria-María MacDonald, Alice Cook

12. Building the New Scholarship of Women’s Higher Educational History, 1965–1985
Linda Eisenmann

13. “The Rest is All Drag”: Trans-gressive Women in Higher Education History
Jess Clawson

14. Epilogue
Margaret A. Nash

Avainsanat: Education, Higher Education, History of Education, Gender and Education