Bright epoch : women & coeducation in the American West /
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| Author / Creator: | Radke-Moss, Andrea G. |
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| Imprint: | Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008. |
| Description: | xii, 352 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Women in the West |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7369069 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables and Graphs
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Making a Welcome for Women Students: The Discourse of Coeducational Inclusion by Administrators and Students
- 2. The Place of Women Students: Reading the Language and Practices of Gender Separation
- 3. The Early Practice of Coeducation: Literary Societies as Laboratories for Separation and Inclusion
- 4. Women Students' Sociality: Building Relationships with Men and Women
- 5. Women's Course Work: Farm Wives, Finished Ladies, or Functioning Scientists?
- 6. Under the Gaze: Women's Physical Activity and Sport at Land-Grant Colleges
- 7. "The American Eagle in Bloomers": "Student-Soldieresses" and Women's Military Activity
- 8. Challenging Political Separation: Women's Rights Activism at Land-Grant Colleges and Universities
- Conclusion: Bright Epoch: When the Fair Daughters Joined the Ranks
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustrations
- 1. UAC students in chapel, ca. 1900
- 2. "The Way We Are Separated"
- 3. "Coeds Smoking at University of Nebraska"
- 4. "Dandelion Day at the University of Nebraska," ca. 1910
- 5. Student bicyclists at the University of Nebraska, ca. 1898
- 6. Male and female students socializing, ca. 1900
- 7. Women students in front of Benton Hall, ca. 1898
- 8. Willa Cather at University of Nebraska, 1891
- 9. Mary Beaumont Welch, ca. 1890s
- 10. OAC domestic science class, ca. 1905
- 11. First OAC graduating class, ca. 1870
- 12. OAC horticulture students, ca. 1900
- 13. "Plumbing 101," ca. 1915
- 14. UAC botany lab, ca. 1900
- 15. UAC commerce class, ca. 1900
- 16. Cyclone Bicycle Club, ca. 1892
- 17. Ina Gittings in mid-pole vault at the University of Nebraska, ca. 1906
- 18. "Silhouetteograph," University of Nebraska, ca. 1890s
- 19. Adelloyd Whiting's friends in the gymnasium showers, ca. 1898
- 20. OAC women's basketball team, 1900
- 21. Field hockey game at the University of Nebraska, 1913 or 1914
- 22. IAC women cadets, ca. 1893
- 23. IAC men and women cadets, ca. 1890s
