The Educational Work of Womens Organizations, 18901960 [Paperback]

This book explores women's organizations and their various educational contributions through local, state, and national networks from 1890 to 1960.?Contributors investigate how women united to support and sustain education in both formal and informal settings, and examine various associations.Introduction; C.Woyshner & A.M.Knupfer ? PART I: ADVANCING HIGHER EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL WORK FOR WOMEN Extending College Education to Southern Women; J.M.Johnson Forwarding Our Great Purpose of Research in Education ; L.M.Hines Cold War Women; L.Puaca PART II: EXPANDING WOMEN'S INFLUENCE IN POLITICS AND SOCIAL REFORM INSTITUTIONS The National College Equal Suffrage League; J.Nidiffer Latter-Day Knights; E.Mieras The Worker Must Have Bread, But She Must Have Roses Too ; L.Rohan PART III: UPLIFTING THE RACE The Student YMCA; S.Cochrane I Think I'd Like to Have the Experience of Meeting a Negro ; M.Gasman Linked Together in Service; K.Sanders-McMurtry & N.Woods Haydel PART IV: SCHOOLING?CHILDREN Politics Are Quite Perplexing ; B.Beatty We Are From the City, and?We Are Here to Educate You ; A.Knecht The Suburban PTA and the Good Life; C.Keenan

This extraordinary collection of essays places education in its proper place in the history of women - at the center of both their struggles for self-definition and their efforts to reform and broaden concepts of community. At the same time, the authors accord women their rightful place in the history of education by highlighting how their educational activities intersected with historical developments as diverse as Progressivism, racial integration, suburbanization, and the Cold War. The authors' insights no doubt will stimulate further research into the many critical ways in which women have used education as a tool of social change. - Rebecca S. Montgomery, author of The Politics of Education in the New South: Women and Reform in Georgia, 1890-1930

This book tells a new story about women's vlÓÎ