Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945–1965
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19921910 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Eisenmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965 (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/book.3238 |
| OpenAlex | W1482128486 |
| ISBN | 9780801888892 |
| Open Library | OL36699652M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education, acknowledging its unique relationship to the expectations of the era and recognizing its particular type of adaptive activism. Linda Eisenmann illuminates the impact of this advocacy in the postwar era, identifying a link between women's activism during World War II and the women's movement of the late 1960s. Though the postwar period has been portrayed as an era of domestic retreat for women, Eisenmann finds otherwise as she explores areas of institution building and gender awareness. In an era uncomfortable with feminism, this generation advocated individual decision making rather than collective action by professional women, generally conceding their complicated responsibilities as wives and mothers. By redefining our understanding of activism and assessing women's efforts within the context of their milieu, this innovative work reclaims an era often denigrated for its lack of attention to women
Action (physics) · Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology) · Feminism · Feminist movement · Institution · Period (music) · Political science · Sociology · Women's history · World War II · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law · Education · united states · Women
You'll Never Walk Alone”
A Woman's World”
À l’assaut du plafond de verre
Is College Completion Associated with Better Cognition in Later Life for People Who Are the Least, or Most, Likely to Obtain a Bachelor’s Degree
Toward a Cooperative Paradigm for the History of Women’s Education in the United States
From Housing to Admissions Redlining
The Higher Education Generation
Dynamic Social Norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women’s Higher Education, 1965–1975
Resistance and Disruption
How Getting into College Led Me to Study the History of Getting into College
Sweeping Out Home Economics
Preserving and Strengthening Together
Coming Out of the Campus Closet
A Different Kind of Activism”
Making better use of U.S. women” Psychology, sex roles, and womanpower in post‐WWII America
| Citations per year | 0.83 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |