Southern Women at the Seven Sister Colleges

Feminist Values and Social Activism, 1875-1915

AvJoan Marie Johnson

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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From the end of Reconstruction and into the New South era, more than one thousand white southern women attended one of the Seven Sister colleges: Vassar, Wellesley, Smith, Mount Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, and Barnard. Joan Marie Johnson looks at how such educations—in the North, at some of the country’s best schools—influenced southern women to challenge their traditional gender roles and become active in woman suffrage and other social reforms of the Progressive Era South.Attending one of the Seven Sister colleges, Johnson argues, could transform a southern woman indoctrinated in notions of domesticity and dependence into someone with newfound confidence and leadership skills. Many southern students at northern schools imported the values they imbibed at college, returning home to found schools of their own, women’s clubs, and woman suffrage associations. At the same time, during college and after graduation, southern women maintained a complicated relationship to home, nurturing their regional identity and remaining loyal to the ideals of the Confederacy.Johnson explores why students sought a classical liberal arts education, how they prepared for entrance examinations, and how they felt as southerners on northern campuses. She draws on personal writings, information gleaned from college publications and records, and data on the women’s decisions about marriage, work, children, and other life-altering concerns.In their time, the women studied in this book would eventually make up a disproportionately high percentage of the elite southern female leadership. This collective biography highlights the important part they played in forging new roles for women, especially in social reform, education, and suffrage.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:University of Georgia Press
ISBN:9780820334684

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JOAN MARIE JOHNSON is a lecturer in women’s history and southern history at Northeastern Illinois University. She is the cofounder and codirector of the Newberry Seminar on Women and Gender at the Newberry Library in Chicago and is the author of Southern Ladies, New Women.

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Johnson does for the Seven Sisters what historian Anne Firor Scott first did for Troy Female Seminary, showing how graduates 'disseminated the feminist values they learned there.' This superbly researched work will be a valuable addition to the historiography on women's higher education, the Progressive Era, and the region.

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