Women in Higher Education, 1850-1970 International Perspectives [Hardcover]

This edited collection illustrates the way in which womens experiences of academe could be both contextually diverse but historically and culturally similar. It looks at both the micro (individual women and universities) and macro-level (comparative analyses among regions and countries) within regional, national, trans-national, and international contexts.
 
The contributors integrally advance knowledge about the university in history by exploring the intersections of the lived experiences of women students and professors, practices of co-education, and intellectual and academic cultures. They also raise important questions about the complementary and multidirectional flow and exchange of academic knowledge and information among gender groups across programmes, disciplines, and universities.
 
Historical inquiry and interpretation serve as efficacious ways with which to understand contemporary events and discourses in higher education, and more broadly in community and society. This book will provide important historical contexts for current debates about the numerical dominance and significance of women in higher education, and the tensions embedded in the gendering of specific academic programs and disciplines, and university policies, missions, and mandates.

Introduction  E. Lisa Panayotidis and Paul Stortz  1. Gender, Subjectivity, and Lived Experience in University Education in Ireland, 1850-1910  Judith Harford  2. Imperial Ideals: Women in Scotland's Universities and the British Empire  Christine D. Myers  3. The Final Barrier? Australian Women and the Nineteenth-Century Public University  Julia Horne  4. Becoming Undergraduates: Women and University Culture in Nineteenth-Century Canada  Sara Z. Burke  5. Intellectual Women, Social Scil"